Product Description

Return to Middle Earth.....
The Children of Hurin is full of magical Tolkien trademarks you'd expect,
elves, eagles, dwarves, rampaging orcs, swords that glow and fire breathing
dragons, not to mention epic battles between good and evil, rich
landscapes, lifelong friendships and forbidden love, this book will appeal
to MiddleEarth fanatics and families alike.
Illustrated by Alan Lee, who won an Oscar for his artwork on The Return of
the King.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20664 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-17
• Released on: 2007-04-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 313 pages

The Times
"Deserves to eclipse all his other posthumous writings, and stand as a worthy memorial to the imagination of Tolkien"

Independent on Sunday
"I hope that its universality and power will grant it a place in English mythology"

Times Literary Supplement
"The darkest of all Tolkien's tales. Alan Lee's illustrations complement the writing splendidly"

Customer Reviews

It's all been said before
The story has been told, and the critics have spoken!

This is a book that both Tolkien fans and others can very well do without.
It is simple, dull and absolutely not engaging. I was extremely disappointed.

re-hashing for profit
if you already have "unfinished tales" then you already own this book , give or take a few editorial tweaks......Tolkien is become a rip-off industry

Unreadable
Okay, I've read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and thought they were fantastic, but this was just terrible. I couldn't get past the first chapter. The prose is dreadful "so and so (unpronouncable name) "was the son of so-and so" (another unpronouncable name) "decended from so-and so" (again unprnouncable) - you get the idea. Just unreadable, turgid rubbish. You'll need the patience of a saint to get through this. Really, life's too short to waste on this ponderous bore-a-thon. Avoid! Avoid! Avoid!