I'm not going to talk about my general thoughts on
Children of Húrin at present, but there's one thing that has really stuck out at me and made me think over these last few months:
Morwen.
I thought the book did a great job with taking at least one aspect of this enormous mythology and zeroing in on it, and I see that especially in Morwen's pride. I liked how she didn't want to seem poor for example. I liked the weird relationship with the servant. Class always makes for interesting discussion when it comes to Tolkien's work, but I like how it was spelled out here: hey, it sucks to be poor! Especially if you were relatively pampered to begin with, and must "save face," as it may, wherein the rest of the world is concerned.
It made me think of Jane Austen and all that class anxiety, embedded, instead, in a story that features dragons and the like. Even when divorced from the greater legendarium, it strikes me as very powerful.
As for the rest of the book... Eh. That's the sort of discussion I find myself only being able to have after a few bloody marys or something.
