I just finished the most recently completed (posthumously) story by J.R.R. Tolkien. For those of you who lived 2001-2004 in a time warp, he's the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. His son has taken on the job of assembling his notes and pieces of stories, along with the constructions of worlds and languages to complete The Simarillion, The Unfinished Tales, and now...(drum roll)...The Children of Hurin.Plot Summary:
Turin is the son of Hurin, one of the Lords of Men when the elves ruled Middle Earth. Hurin, after losing the great battle against the Dark Lord Morgoth, is enslaved. Turin is then raised by the Elvish King Thingol, but apart from his mother.
- Shitty life moment #1: Dad is a slave to the powers of evil
- Shitty life moment #2: Orphaned to the Elves--and we all know how hot they are. Legolas...mmmmm (look but don't touch)
Turin grows up to be a fine specimen of a man, slaying orcs left and right and protecting Middle Earth from evil. After a quarrel with an elf lord, he flees civilization to live in the wild.
- Shitty life moment #3: Adjusting from Charmin to tree leaves
After more battles, he meets a woman in the woods, marries with her, and plants his seed. Later he discovers...
- Shitty life moment #4: His wife is his sister (EEEEWWWW!)
Analysis:
But besides the tortured soul aspects, the book is filled with great visuals of epic battles, dragons, landscape, and elvish hotties. And it wasn't plagued by the terminology contained in The Simarillion (considered a "very hard read" by most literary scholars).
Overall Grade: A-
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