Exactly. If the movies are done right, they would get more acclaim than the LOTR trilogy. Tolkien always preferred them anyways.
I understand how you feel about The Silmarillion as it reads almost like a text book. Not so with Children of Hurin. It is a novel and it reads like one. It uses a "higher" form of English, but it feels a lot like LOTR.
As long as you are not waiting for the kind of ending LOTR gave you, you will enjoy it. You have my word.
" after it. I thought it was pretty obvious I was half-joking (about the incest part). Essentially you have a drama which on it's own is quite bleak. But within context of LotR it's not without hope. Revenge of the Sith, on it's own, is quite bleak. The hero kills children to save his own wife and baby and in doing so kills his wife and assumes he has killed his baby. But when considered with the entire story arch of the saga it is a bit more palatable. Just a heads up: if you think the Silmarillion is a hard read, then you will find the UT impossible to read because it's almost as bad as the HoME. Way too many notes and references but all of it adds so much to Tolkien's tale.
As for the missing plot lines, I know the Children of Hurin is canon, but the missing plot lines didn't really conflict with Tolkien's Legandarium. CT should have kept them in the book. I thought they were an essential part to the overall plot.
Edit: Back in the first age, Middle Earth was known as Beleriand, the region west of the Blue Mountains.
You win for most apropo smiley use ever.
This appies to me too
