[Quiet Man Cometh]

The Silmarillion is my dad's favourite of all the books and he reads it every two years or so. It's one of the things we talk about a lot. I left my copy of Children of Hurin for him to read when I was last visiting. The story appears in The Silmarillion as a chapter I think (checks with Suzerain :p). We mostly talked about reading perspective since we both had different thoughts when reading the book. I looked at it more from the perspective of Turin, the son wandering around. Dad on the other hand, being a dad, looked at it from the perspective of Hurin, who was "given the eyes and ears of Morgoth" so to speak, and was made to watch everything that happened to his children before being let go at the end of the book.

Like everything else in the collection, Children of Hurin (one of three stories Tolkein intended to expand on, so says Christopher) ties back to the Silm. with it's other details. One of the characters, Beleg, uses a sword that was forged by a particular elf who's story is told in the Silmarillion, a dark elf apprently and the sword itself is somewhat malevolent in nature. His story ties in with the elf king who raised Turin and who's name I can never recall. Thingol? The guy in the forest with the maiar for a wife who casts the girdle around it for protection. Sheol, help?