6/21/2023 0 Comments Lord of the rings hurin![]() ![]() He has thus made a complete story using his father's words. As editor, he has used some slightly different texts where his father's papers fragment than he did in Unfinished Tales, corrected some inconsistencies and problems, and papered over gaps with material from the Quenta and the Annals. ![]() ") As Christopher Tolkien explains in an appendix, this was the only one of the later narrative texts of the Elder Days - later, and thus largely compatible with the Lord of the Rings iteration of the legendarium - which was both detailed enough to be read as a story and not an annalistic narrative, and full enough to be published on its own. (In Unfinished Tales the third word was spelled "Hîn," there then being a fear of mispronunciation as in "Not by the hair on my. What it is, simply, is a text of the "Narn i Chîn Húrin" from Unfinished Tales, complete instead of abridged, and normalized in the way the texts in The Silmarillion were normalized. For this is not a book that reveals unexpected new vistas to his sub-creation or reveals major new texts of which we knew nothing, as The Silmarillion and the "History of Middle-earth" books did. ![]() It may shock readers of this magazine less than any other when I say that this is not a book that a serious Tolkien reader has to have. Review reprinted (with modifications) from Mythprint, June/July 2007. ![]()
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