Mitch’s Reviews > The Children of Húrin > Status Update

I never really noticed how great Christopher Lee is at pronouncing Elvish names. He's so much better at it than I am.

Obviously people talk about the tragedy of the human characters in this, but what about the Elves?!?! Beleg, Gwindor, AND Mablung didn't sign up for this BS either!

I love that the chapters "Túrin in Nargothrond" and "The Fall of Nargothrond" happen back-to-back. It kind of tells you everything you need to know about Túrin lol.

Ugh, it's so good.

Then drawing back the coverlet, [Brandir] looked upon the face of Túrin son of Húrin; and a dark shadow fell on his heart. 'O cruel men of Haleth!' he cried. 'Why did you hold back death from this man? With great labor you have brought hither the last bane of our people.'

Why does no one listen to Brandir? So much incest, death, suffering, and pain could have been avoided if people just listened to this man!!!

'And this also I say: though mortal Men have little life beside the span of the Elves, they would rather spend it in battle than fly or submit. The defiance of Húrin Thalion is a great deed; and though Morgoth slay the doer, he cannot make the deed not to have been. Even the Lord of the West will honor it; and is it not written into the history of Arda, which neither Morgoth nor Manwë can unwrite?'

Tolkien keeps on using the word "woodwose" in this just to flex on us by showing off his extensive Middle English vocabulary lol.

'Before Arda you were, but others also; and you did not make it. Neither are you the most mighty; for you have spent your strength upon yourself and wasted it in your own emptiness. No more are you now than an escaped thrall of the Valar, and their chain still awaits you.'