Middle-Earth once again

[layne67]

I bought 'The Children of Hurin' just now. I'm feeling a tad guilty about buying it because I have 'The Silmarillion' and 'Sauron Defeated' gathering dust on my bookshelves, oh, for the past 2 years or so. 'Sauron Defeated' - I've read halfway. As for 'The Silmarillion', after several attempts, I couldn't get past chapter 3. Or was it page 3.

First para, chapter one of 'The Children of Hurin' :

The Childhood of Túrin

Hador Goldenhead was a lord of the Edain and well-beloved by the Eldar. He dwelt while his days lasted under the lordship of Fingolfin, who gave to him wide lands in that region of Hithlum which was called Dor-lómin. His daughter Glóredhel wedded Haldir son of Halmir, lord of the Men of Brethil; and at the same feast his son Galdor the Tall wedded Hareth, the daughter of Halmir.

Okay, not bad. I think I can read this :)

Has anyone else read this book?

Comments

[aredhelebenesse.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wish I could also read "The Children of Hurin" now, but I first have to buy it. I think for the Sil, you should just read on. It's such an amazingly deep and heroic book. My hubby was the same, he tried to read it some seven years ago or so and all the names confused him this much that he gave up. But I promise you that you'll love it. The feeling you get by reading LotR, that you read a book of legends with a fair amount of history, becomes ten times stronger when you read the Sil.

Once a guy in TV said in a show concerning the search for the Holy Grail, that maybe in some years our descendants will think all the stories in Tolkien's books were real history and they will go and search for the One Ring and use the old cards and the books to find out where they had to look. Then they will find the ring and not only one of them, but hundreds and make new stories. They'll call them scientific founded new discoveries and after thousand years even these scientists will become a legend like King Arthur now.
That sounds all very theoretical and fictitious, but when you look around how many scholars even today write, learn and teach about all the gloomy and heroic things around the One Ring and Arda's history, it seems a lot clearer and more possible. And by reading the Sil you will think you could even be a part of this twig of historians and not just a member of an illustrious circle of geeks.

And now I'll stop myself or I'll bury you in text. *blushes*

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Now that's a very interesting theory that you have there, Hina. Who knows, maybe Middle-Earth did exist and one of these days someone will stumble into it. Well, stranger things had happened before :D

Your enthuasism really gave me the encouragement to complete this book!

Thanks! *hugs*

[aredhelebenesse.livejournal.com]

stranger things had happened before

That's right and who knows, maybe the power of all the people is strong enough to make the story to a real big legend. So much has been talked about it already in the last 30 years or even longer if you count The Hobbit as well. I think it could become interesting. :)

*big hugs*