hurin

Opening a discussion place dedicated to this lay. Having a hard time finding the rhythm and musicality of the verses. However, it's a nice refresher on these epic tales. What do you all think of it? Update: I feel the story is more fast paced...

I find this story probably the most complete and well defined in the Silmarillion. I didn't like it, too depressing and nothing good comes out of it. Everything else has a tragic moment but something good results from it. The dead of Fingolfin proved that Morgoth wasn't beyond harm. The...

Who's death in the Children of Hurin do you find the saddest? There was originally a poll with different names of characters who die in TCoH alongside with this. I think it got lost when this thread was moved to a different forum. Is there a way to restore it? If not that's fine. I originally...

I am reading and loving The Children of Húrin and have just read the superb chapter three including the debate between thrall Morgoth 🤣 and Húrin. This section read literally suggests Morgoth effectively made Húrin immortal albeit only in theory and goes against my understanding of the usual...