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Title: Children of Hurin
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 18 Apr 2007, 14:13

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?

Title: Re: Children of Hurin
Post by: MattBurns on 18 Apr 2007, 14:41

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.

Title: Re: Children of Hurin
Post by: celticgeek on 18 Apr 2007, 15:02

I have ordered it and am looking forward to it.

Title: Re: Children of Hurin
Post by: Inlander on 18 Apr 2007, 19:16

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.

Title: Re: Children of Hurin
Post by: Dimmukane on 18 Apr 2007, 22:16

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.

Title: Re: Children of Hurin
Post by: MattBurns on 19 Apr 2007, 06:13

I read an article about it. Basically Chris says that every single word is his fathers, all he did was go through all of his notes and stories and tie everything together so it's consistent and it makes sense.

so based on that, you could say that J.R.R. did write it.

Title: Re: Children of Hurin
Post by: Inlander on 19 Apr 2007, 06:25

Taking only the loosest definition of "writing". Writing is a hell of a lot more than just putting words on a page - hell, that's the easy bit!