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Children of Hurin
TheFuriousWombat:
I gotta say I'm very surpised no one's brought this up. It's the first full Tolkien books in decades. I don't know a whole lot about it, only that it's set a long time before the events of the Lord of the Rings and that it's much darker, much more violent, and much more eloquently written (closer to the Silmarillion in style I believe). The plot is based upon a smaller portion of the Silmarillion in fact. But it does look great and the first edition has lots of very nice Alan Lee illustrations. Has anyone started/finished this yet? Any thoughts?
MattBurns:
My first thought is Hurr....
My second thought is I couldn't make it through LOTR, I couldn't make it through the Hobbit for that matter.
I doubt I fair any better with this one, even though it is only 260 some pages.
celticgeek:
I have ordered it and am looking forward to it.
Inlander:
Man, this is an awkward moment. I guess someone has to tell you. I mean, I don't want to dash all your hopes and dreams, but, dude . . .
. . . Tolkien's dead.
Dimmukane:
I might actually check it out, since it wasn't directly written by Tolkien. I am in no way implying that he is a bad author, I just feel that he could have gotten across the exact same details and ideas with half of the words, and the rest he intentionally did to piss us off.
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