ext_6322: (Tolkien)
ext_6322 ([identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] altariel 2009-03-20 12:45 pm (UTC)

Yes, I'd like to read Tuor/Idril and the fall of Gondolin, as that's the one I'm haziest about; I feel I've a reasonable grasp of Beren and Luthien. Turin & co fell somewhere in between; I recognised a lot of it, but he did explain how he'd woven various different versions together (and omitted a whole lot of extra detail from the verse versions).

I always liked it too, for its grim angst, though reading the story in full it did strike me that the plot depends on Morwen and Turin both being extremely pig-headed for about eighteen years.

I do actually have a Glaurung icon!

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