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J. R. R. Tolkien: The Children of Húrin (2007, HarperCollins Publishers)

The ‘Great Tale’ of The Children of Húrin, set during the legendary time before The …

Review of 'The Children of Húrin' on 'Goodreads'

I quite enjoyed this story. It's heroic and tragic in all the right ways, and it is more accessible, I think, than many of Tolkien's other "lost tales" and mythologies in his legendarium. It succeeds in being a well-structured story with a set of boundaries, and although there might be a few too many names to remember (and that's just referring to the names Túrin gives himself!), it is well worth the read.