Reply #5: I Think I Have Read Everything Published Posthumously by JRRT

[evilkumquat]

The Silmarillion

Unfinished Tales

The History of Middle Earth (all volumes)

I have read them so many times that I can, at a glance, tell when a fellow World of WarCraft player copped some lesser-known Tolkien character's ID.

Having said that, I do not think I will be purchasing Children of Hurin.

The story of Turin and his mother and sister after Hurin's capture by Morgoth is some of the most depressing stuff ever set down on paper (that had nothing to do with World War II).

I know enough of the story from what has already been published to know I will not enjoy what I read.

Please do not hate me; I still have plenty of Tolkien street-cred.

I just do not like reading stuff THAT depressing.

Evil Kumquat