The Gest of Beren and Lúthien - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Mnemosyne · 03-10-2010, 10:59 AM

I enjoyed the Gest (Lays of Beleriand is one of the most accessible volumes of HoME in my opinion), but if you're only up to Canto IV...

All I can say is that the good stuff is from later, when he undertook to revise the Gest after LotR was published. The writing is much more mature, and there are even some efforts to work LotR material into the text. For me one of the tragedies is that he didn't get very far (that and his purposed revision of Fall of Gondolin, which only got as far as Tuor showing up...)

03-10-2010, 10:59 AM	#5
Mnemosyne Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Between the past and the future Posts: 1,159	I enjoyed the Gest (Lays of Beleriand is one of the most accessible volumes of HoME in my opinion), but if you're only up to Canto IV... All I can say is that the good stuff is from later, when he undertook to revise the Gest after LotR was published. The writing is much more mature, and there are even some efforts to work LotR material into the text. For me one of the tragedies is that he didn't get very far (that and his purposed revision of Fall of Gondolin, which only got as far as Tuor showing up...) __________________ Got corsets?