Húrin defies Morgoth and a curse is placed on his entire family. We see the life of Túrin, his son, on his journey through life in Middle Earth.This is my first Tolkien read and that was a mistake. This is a very dark tale, too dark for me. I wasn’t expecting a happy ending but I was not prepared for the amount of despair present in this story. The writing style is very similar to The Lord of The Rings. It is recommended that one reads other Tolkien books like the Silmarillion before giving The Children of Húrin a try.
My favorite thing about the story was the fact that individual characters take on different names depending on what they were going through in life.
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