The Children of Hurin by J.R.R and Chris Tolkien

[Dominique]

I'm surprised we don't have a thread on this already actually, but "The Children of Hurin" came out here recently, it's a work that J.R.R Tolkien died leaving unfinished, his son Christopher then completed it and revised it. I haven't actually gotten through any of the other Tolkien books, but I'm interested in reading this one. Is anyone else going to read it? It's supposed to be quite raunchy with incest and stuff apparently.

Here is an overview from wikipedia:

The book was published on 17 April 2007,[1][2] by HarperCollins in the United Kingdom and by Houghton Mifflin in the United States. Alan Lee, illustrator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings created the painting on the jacket as well as other paintings throughout the book.

The story deals with a hero of the First Age, Húrin, of the race of Men, who is cursed by the Dark Lord Morgoth, and the effect this curse has on his children Túrin Turambar and Nienor.

The Children of Húrin takes the reader back to a time long before The Lord of the Rings, in an area of Middle-earth that was to be drowned before Hobbits appeared, and when the great enemy was still the fallen Vala, Morgoth, and Sauron was only Morgoth's lieutenant. This heroic romance is the tale of the Man, Húrin, who dared to defy Morgoth's force of evil, and his family's tragic destiny, as it follows his son Túrin Turambar's travels through the lost world of Beleriand...

Likening it to a Greek tragedy, The Washington Post called it "a bleak, darkly beautiful tale played out against the background of the First Age of Tolkien's Middle Earth."[5] Referencing its accessibility to readers-at-large (as does The Washington Post), Bryan Appleyard of the The Sunday Times said, "as a book, not just a fragment of a project, The Children of Hurin, in its own dotty but also awe-inspiring way, works."[6]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_H%C3%BArin

[Hanna]

I haven't gotten to read it yet, but it is definetly on my TBR list! I love Tolkien's works so I'm looking forward to reading it. I've never actually read anything by Christopher Tolkien, so it will be exciting to see how he writes.

[zeldafitzgerald]

I thought it was very interesting that this came out, but I don't think I will read it. I would read his other works first, and they are not very high on my list. (I know I might love them, but it's not the kind of book or genre I normally enjoy at all.)

I have heard that The Children of Hurin is not very good.

[Bina]

I´m not such a fantasy person and I didn´t even like the LOTR films. But Tolkien´s riddles are great

[lindsay]

It was on the front displays at my local bookstore but I didn't even give it a second thought.