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posted by martyb on Sunday June 14 2015, @06:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the ...and-the-first-will-be-last dept.

Tolkien wrote the dark tale when he was but a 22 year old student. It is based on a character from Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, which he as a linguist studied. His biographer has said that the work was important for the creation of new languages. Tolkien himself has commented that it was then that he began writing legends of his own.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by KiloByte on Monday June 15 2015, @01:44AM

    by KiloByte (375) on Monday June 15 2015, @01:44AM (#196315)

    Uhm... The "Children of Hûrin" wasn't anything like you claim. It was far more palatable to a casual reader than previously published brief versions of that story.

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  • (Score: 2) by vux984 on Monday June 15 2015, @02:16AM

    by vux984 (5045) on Monday June 15 2015, @02:16AM (#196327)

    /shrug

    I suppose. Although credited as " JRR Tolkien edited by Christopher Tolkien"; its as about as much a novel by JRR Tolkien as Blade Runner is a movie by Philip K Dick.