The CHILDREN OF HURIN. I've had it for ages but haven't read it. Should I?

It's mostly the same as the version published in [i:2t2pn3ti]Unfinished Tales[/i:2t2pn3ti] but more polished and well worth the read in my opinion. Alan Lee's beautiful illustrations add a lot as well.

[url=http://www.tolkien.co.uk/titles/38125/the-children-of-h%C3%BArin-j-r-r-tolkien-9780007252268:2e47chzn]Indeed it is.[/url:2e47chzn]

It's not broken up into multiple parts, for one, and it's told in a single narrative (UT has part of the middle included at the end as an appendix). It also has, as I recall, fewer notes and comments by Christopher Tolkien, which can make it a bit cleaner easier to read without lots of other information.

.... and I will get around to reading it... one day...

Perfectly excellent! (AntiEldoSpam6) Cheeky lad... (AntiEldoSpam7)

I lent someone else's copy, and it is very good. So many dark themes-violence, death, sorrow etc- makes it well, dark, but a highly gripping book. I suspect your local bookshop is similar to mine- shelf's devoted to Twilight and vampire novels, plus biography's on some celebrities and a few books on fantasy/sci fi. Good old Amazon, I find that they usually ship very quickly if you buy direct from them.

Your local bookshop won't order it in for you? (Where I grew up - Housing Commission area - we'd just steal a hardback btw - that's if we could read).

I agreed to burn those Twilight sections in books stores when the world is ending. Yes, I know the quote, "you don't have to burn books to destroy a culture, you just have to get people to stop reading them," by Ray Bradbury, but that's how you kill vampires IN the book, so do the same TO the book would anyone help me with my ambition???? And save the bible and tolkien books!

[quote="Odo Banks":1exgghgt][quote="pettytyrant101":1exgghgt]I am somewhat ashamed to say I was never a shoplifter when I was a youngster, I was the sort who hired shoplifters to steal to order. A far wiser approach if more than a little unethical. [/quote:1exgghgt] Bloody hoity-toity! I knew it! Typical Petty Tyrant! [quote="Tinuviel":1exgghgt]I agreed to burn those Twilight sections in books stores when the world is ending. Yes, I know the quote, "you don't have to burn books to destroy a culture, you just have to get people to stop reading them," by Ray Bradbury, but that's how you kill vampires IN the book, so do the same TO the book would anyone help me with my ambition???? And save the bible and tolkien books![/quote:1exgghgt] Twilight smilight - not like anyone needs care about pulp --- it disappears into the void eventually. As to the Bible and Tolkien books ---- they would be useful if you got caught in a snowy forest and needed all-night burners to stay alive. (You can get new copies when you get back to civiklization of course, they're just books after all. There are always plenty of copies hanging around).[/quote:1exgghgt] A good point, but why would you have copies of The Bible and any publications by Tolkien in a snowy forest? I like to go on walks, but I rarely bring any books, and If I do only a short piece of chic lit! By the way, The Bible is the word of God, not just a book!! I suppose that's an Australian town then? Cviklization?

[quote="Ally":26r8qv7x] "The Bible is the word of God, not just a book!!"-[/quote:26r8qv7x] Agreed [quote="pettytyrant101":26r8qv7x]You're in danger of tempting me into a Big Bad Serious thread style reply here- but I shall resist and leave it simply as saying that's not so much a statement as a point of view. [/quote:26r8qv7x] We are well aware of the Agnostic and Atheistic and Antitheistic views on this forum, no need to reiterate.

i nebber thort ya culd burn za [i:thun82jq]wird [/i:thun82jq]of Gawd? nebber noo juz won buk culd cuntain Gawd neider? wow maybee i been libbin un mienin inza dessert tru long!!! (kimmberlees iz u long wayz frum fulk un gawds parentlee)

[quote="pettytyrant101":2e2o17qq]There is an equal right to respond as there is the right for the person making the original statement.[/quote:2e2o17qq] I appreciate petty not making a long response, and would go so far as to suggest that all statements - responses or otherwise - about serious topics are best left in Serious Threads (TM). Just my opinion, of course.

[i:24e4mbdv]And don't forget Lord of the Rings --- Ha! That's the book, the King of Kings! [/i:24e4mbdv] Dialogue with the Fundamentalists: Plato. Wise Odo

[i:2fltn4pi]The Lord of the Rings[/i:2fltn4pi] doesn't have [i:2fltn4pi]Leviticus[/i:2fltn4pi] - that must count for something! (Just a joke, don't mean to offend anyone.)

Legolas is far less dull, I'll agree with that.

Well, like Odo and i were saying on the other thread, Tolkien left the Nuttiest Parts out of HIS Bible. [b:3nhz6h6i]GB[/b:3nhz6h6i]

Indeed! [b:3gr4vw9i]GB[/b:3gr4vw9i]

it has a really good story i suggest you read it

I've got a copy and plan to read it soon. I bought it in a cute second hand charity book shop in practically new condition, hard back and beautifully illustrated by Alan Lee--- for £2.50!!! I just thought I'd share here, no one else could understand my joy! 

oh  Kate how wonderful for you. And Balrogs you also. I love to hear of great deals like that. Unfortunately the person that bought mine had to spend a small fortune for there were nearly none to be had here , they went so quickly and I felt badly for that. Strangely , here where I live Tolkien is much revered and even people that call themselves occultists or outright satanists and know what happens to the 'bad' guys in the stories are so struck by the grandeur of Tolkien's work that they flocked by the hundreds each time one of the shows arrived in town. It was truly wierd. Each one that came here opened on the anniversary of my father's death so of course I always went a day or two after. It was surreal. And there is such agony in this little city as all the comings and goings of The Hobbit are read and discussed. And one member of my family has been working for months on his own music for the Hobbit and I am staggered by its' beauty and freshness. As we read the Hobbit as a family and then heard his own music for each part I was beside myself with awe.  

The only Tolkien book I still haven't read. Sometimes always seems to come up :/. My gf cries every time she reads it.