Looking back at Tolkien's Children of Hurin
Tolkien is being lionized for his diamond sparkling fantasy tales for quite some decades now. While going through the Lord of the Rings we have seen Aragorn told the hobbits the tale of Beren and Lúthien, but of Húrin and his son Turin no reference is seen or heard. This mythical fiction like the other ones is more intense than it seems to be at the first glance. This is a long tale, covering the entire life of the protagonist Turin, the son of Húrin, about 36 years with meticulous novelistic descriptions and conversations, but it also skims over a great deal in summary. Moreover this particular tale of the Middle Earth is infinitely more darker than “The Lord of the Rings”.in fact it can be easily called one of the best modern fantastic sagas. It has no solace at the climax rather the tale brings forward a horrific end of the protagonist. This manner of fatalistic writing is seen in the Greek tragedies of the old like Sophocles. The story opens primarily with Húrin & Huor’s ...