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Tag: The Lay of the Children of Hurin

Christopher Tolkien FEATURED

CR Episode 156: The Lay of the Children of Hurin, Part III

2 January 2023 Critical Readings

The panel concludes a three-week reading of The Lay of the Children of Hurin, examining the connexion between the history, geography, and cosmology of Tolkien’s imagined Middle-Earth and that of our own, very real, terrestrial middle-earth.

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J. R. R. Tolkien FEATURED

CR Episode 155: The Lay of the Children of Hurin, Part II

26 December 2022 Critical Readings

The panel reads the second part of The Lay of the Children of Hurin, which relates the tale of Beleg Strongbow, and the doom of Turin Turambar, giving special attention to how the text connects to other mythological and Anglo-Saxon poems and narratives.

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J. R. R. Tolkien FEATURED

CR Episode 154: The Lay of the Children of Hurin, Part I

19 December 2022 Critical Readings

The panel begins a three-week reading and analysis of the first version of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lay of the Children of Hurin”, a poetic account of Turin Turambar, written between 1918 and 1925, and first published in The Lays of Beleriand (1985).

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