A complete and thorough study of C of H (2008)

A curated collection of some of halfir's many contributions to the Tolkien scholarship on the Plaza.
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"The earliest versions of this story by J.R.R. Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War and the years that followed; but long afterward, when The Lord of the Rings was finished, he wrote it anew and greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive and character: it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to a final and finished form. In this book I have endeavored to construct, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention." - Christopher Tolkien

Over fifty years after the first publication of The Lord of the Rings, Christopher Tolkien rescued his father's manuscripts and published The Children of Hurin. The story, as Christopher points out in his introduction, takes place over 6,000 years before the Council of Elrond. It follows the fate of Turin, son of Hurin and Morwen. Hurin dared to defy the Dark Lord Morgoth. Thus, Morgoth put a curse on Hurin's family. A tragic story of Turin's great and heroic deeds but, as the son of ill-fate, his doom follows wherever he goes.

In this thread, halfir brings to light several critic reviews after The Children of Hurin was first published. halfir and other members discuss the book reviews and examine The Children of Hurin, in it's "final and finished form."

<https://lotrfanaticsplaza.com/plazahist ... hurin.html>
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