| Re: The Children of Hurin
The problem with these stories of the first age is that there is no sense of immediacy; they would be better told as if the reader was reading an account of a current event. A tale told as an old tale from eons ago that is being bantered about by people who lived eons ago makes the action feel a wee bit remote.
As an aside, the alternate explanation of the petty dwarf's betrayal is the true one; it is much better. |