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Originally Posted by davem
LMP I don't agree that the tale ends abruptly - it ends with Turin & Nienor's death.
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I can see ending the tale with Turin's death; it's the Hurin/Morwen ending that seems wrong. What really seems especially wrong is how Morgoth's freeing of Hurin is simply
told in an overly discursive style rather than
shown.
All of which is to say that CT is just too hung up on not touching his father's works at all. If a story is going to be told, it ought to be told as best it can, even if editing and revision is necessary. The lack thereof is why JRR is probably rolling in his grave that his son would publish such an under-written story as is.
Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed it immensely, but its weaknesses loom large and distracting. JRRT would never have let it be so, and didn't as long as he lived; too much the artist with integrity.