Thread: The Children of Hurin: Sponsored by Strayhold!

In support of our love of Tolkien's World, Strayhold is sponsoring a fresh, new discussion for the Professor's works, powered by YOU.

Each week will focus on a single chapter for discussion on our message board. It will be an open discussion: all who wish to participate will be able to do so freely, and because we are doing exactly one chapter per week, any who "join late" will not have a hard time catching right back up.

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Our first book to read and reflect upon: THE CHILDREN OF HURIN! This is the newest, published work of Tolkien, as pieced together by his son, Christopher. It tells the tale of Hurin, which sets up much of what we see in his later works.

Here is a link to purchase the book from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Children-H...9435703&sr=1-1

Hope to see you there! This is going to be an excellent dialogue for those who truly love the world that Tolkien gave us.

See you there!

Thank you TSK, that sounds very interesting. I will have to check it out.

I hadn't realized (although perhaps I should have) that among other things you are also one of the lore monkeys.

Originally Posted by Vilnas

Thank you TSK, that sounds very interesting. I will have to check it out.

I hadn't realized (although perhaps I should have) that among other things you are also one of the lore monkeys.

I love Tolkien. His inspiration has dominated my adolescent/adult life. Aside from wife/kids/job etc.

Originally Posted by TheStormKing

Our first book to read and reflect upon: THE CHILDREN OF HURIN! This is the newest, published work of Tolkien, as pieced together by his son, Christopher. It tells the tale of Hurin, which sets up much of what we see in his later works.

To be completely accurate, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009) was published more recently than The Children of Húrin (2007). The subject of the former, however, is Norse mythology rather than Tolkien's own mythology.