Children of Hurin

[BathTub]

I stole this years ago, can't remember where, but I loved it...

[Tripe]

Tee Hee, never a truer banner was created.

Actually there was a great illustration in Private Eye of a review of one of the previous History of Middle Earth books.

It had a large banner reading "Tolkien: The Excitement Continues" beneath were two pics one labled "With Pipe" and the other "With Party Hat" and save for those two elements the pics were identical profile portraits of a slightly slumped J.R.R.

[Ator the Invincible]

I stole this years ago, can't remember where, but I loved it...

If I were drinking something, it would have come straight out of my nose right then.  Nicely done!

I liked Children of Hurin as a fable about Pride, and the best parts of ourselves becoming the worst.  As adventure, it wasn't as good as LotR.

[SharpMonkey]

Great banner!  It reminded me of the following penny-arcade strip (which I've hidden behind spoiler tags due to foul language)

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[Tripe]

See I didn't mind so much the first prequel trilogy of Dune, but man could they please knock it on the head now.

If I want scribbled notes turned into unsavory follow ups to a dead authors writing I'll go read a V. C. Andrews novel

[Sharktopus]

Some of "Professor Tolkien's Writings" were on display at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum in my city (Why there's a branch in Newburgh, of all places, I'll never know...). I think that was among the collection, along with some notes to his editors on proper spelling. Pretty cool just to see his handwriting, though.

[J-Proof]

Just finished reading this one after putting it off for quite a few months (also cuz I didn't get the book until Christmas =P)

Anyway - awesome read! Great as a thematic book - not so much for adventure.

I realized after reading it that...

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Incest is not uncommon in Tolkien's world... If you follow Elrond's lineage, he is the product of incest up the family tree through Bregor, a man of the First Age. So I wonder why Nienor found it necessary to kill herself - perhaps incest is okay through a gap of four generations but not in the same household ...at least according to Tolkien