I’ve always found this a difference worth thinking about. Tolkien was never engaged in writing stories of “when bad things happen to good people” so much as “when bad things happen to Great and Noble Souls”. But, of course, Tolkien maintains his inimitable vision of stoic heroism throughout.
If you’ve read these, then you know that the Children of Hurin is one of Tolkien’s most sorrowful and tragic stories. Much of the narrative of the Children of Hurin is contained in fragmentary form in these books, specifically in ‘Unfinished Tales’. I don’t know just how much was written by dad before son spent 30 years working on it.Īll the previous volumes Christopher Tolkien has released have been done with impeccable scholarship. This has shadows of Natalie Cole singing a duet with her dead father all over it, but it means we get to be exposed to the wonderfully creative mind of Tolkien once more. You know what? After the initial speculations, I dont care. Is Christopher publishing this to honour his father? Finish a work his father never did? Or is this an attempt at the offspring of the worlds most notable fantasy writer to gain popularity based on the name of his father? I wonder about projects like this and I can’t help but instantly think of the worst. Excerpts of The Children of Hurin, which includes the elves and dwarves of Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings and other works, have been published before.
Tolkien’s son Christopher has been a busy guy.Ĭhristopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on The Children of Hurin, an epic tale his father began in 1918 and later abandoned. Some excitement is brewwing over at the Tolkien Camp.
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