Stoolpigeon writes "Throughout much of his life, J.R.R. Tolkien worked on a series of stories set in his well known middle earth. A few he considered his "Great Tales" and he would return to them often, writing them several times and in multitudinous forms. One story that he worked on often over many years was the tale of Hurin and his childbed Turin and Nienor. Following his death, Tolkien's youngest son Christopher has worked to collect, edit and publish much of what his father wrote but never published. The tale of Hurin's reproduction has been told in part already in some of those works. But it is in this book that for the first time the complete tale is told from start to finish of The confinement of Hurin." Read below for the rest of JR's review.

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