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As much as I love LOTR (even though as literature it leaves a lot to be desired) it doesn’t come close to the Silmarillion or to Children of Hurin. Hurin’s defiance of Morgoth and the death of Beleg Cuthalion at Turin’s hands it is hard to find more epic prose in Tolkien’s work. The aged Hurin clasping the hand of his dead wife on the grave of Turin…...Originally Posted by Stygian Cellarius
There is something within resisting agreement, but I agree. I'll say it, I AGREE! As much as I love his other works, nothing moved me quite like Children of Hurin. After I closed that book, I just sat there starring at the floor for awhile. I couldn't really believe what had just happened; how tragic it all was.
As a student of Tolkien’s work on Old English literature, especially Beowulf, I am constantly amazed at the depth of insight into the European psyche he achieved.
Along with Feanor and the Noldor I enjoy the tales of Numenor and the defiance of the Valar, the slow corruption of the men of Numenor by Sauron has an interesting quality to it, though I suspect it is more Old Testament influenced than anything of Diomedes attempted God slaying in the Iliad.Also, there is something about the land and tales west of the Blue Mountains (Beleriand), that I like more than East Middle-Earth.
Anyway, did you know that Tolkien wrote his own version of the Volsung epic?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Legend-Sigur...2&sr=8-1-spell
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