![]() ![]() The Lord of the Rings is a sprawling epic rich in specifically placed details about the world in which it is set. We can begin by comparing it with what most readers will be more familiar with. All of this took place some six or seven thousand years before the events of Frodo and the more famous ring. It was the story of Turin Turambar, patrilineally cursed by Morgoth upon his father Hurin, interwoven into the history of the First Age of the world. ![]() ![]() Until 2007, the story was known almost exclusively as but a single section from 1977’s The Silmarillion, itself a masterwork of layered narrative, mythological study, and moral fairy tale. It is a tale of doom set against the prince and princess of the House of Hador, and worse still, the great tragedies they are entrapped by are borne witness to by their father, albeit without their knowledge.įor those unaware, The Children of Hurin is set, like much of Tolkien’s literary output, within the same sprawling legendarium as The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien, The Children of Hurin stands out as his darkest and most openly tragic work. There is little doubt that, among the vast-if posthumously published-corpus of J.R.R. No man can enter into the house of a strong man and rob him of his goods, unless he first bind the strong man, and then shall he plunder his house. ![]()
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