Unfinished Tales - Part One - I - Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin
Welcome to our chapter-by-chapter discussion of the Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth! This is, like the Silmarillion, a book of Tolkien's writings that was edited by his son Christopher and published post-humously. It contains exactly what the title says, stories that Tolkien began writing and never finished.
I find the style is more like Tolkien's in the LotR than the Silmarillion is. Perhaps it's because the tales come primarily from a Mannish point-of-view rather than from the Elvish. In the first story we read a more detailed account of Tuor, the human who made his way to the Hidden Kingdom of the Elves and fulfilled an important fate there.
I will come back later with my personal impressions of this story but would like to open the discussion for everyone now. I look forward to reading your thoughts! Whether you take this discussion as an occasion to (re-)read the book or whether you post from memory, your contributions are all welcome.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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