[MadIvan]

If it's a dark morality tale, all right then.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

The movies and books seemed dark enough already.

[bd476]

Welcome back, Ivan! It is good to see you again.

[bill1952]

The story is based on a Finnish folk tale and is full of incest and suicide and stuff.”

Well hey, as long as it has stuff in it, okay. 8^)

[Wonder Warthog]

"The manuscript for The Children of Hurin, to be published next spring, contains incest, suicide and a multitude of violent deaths. Any film version is likely to have restricted audiences because of the subject matter.

Well, the Silmarillion by old JRR himself had all THAT. And except for the incest part, so did LOTR.

[woofer]

The story is based on a Finnish folk tale and is full of incest and suicide and stuff.”

Well, then. There's stuff.

That will make it all worthwhile.

[ExGeeEye]

FR Hobbit Hole Pingie Thingie

[cspackler]

I don't know if my brain can take getting deeper into the story...

But, I will do so anyway. My guess is that it won't hold up to JRR.

Good to see you again, Ivan. Stay around, I appreciate your perspective.

[Celtic Conservative]

That's no worse than Celtic folk tales had, to wit:

Queen maeve and the cattle raid of cooley,The tale of deidre of the sorrows,The legend of Cu Chulainn etc.

CC

[Mark was here]

...contains incest, suicide and a multitude of violent deaths...

I hope we don't want to give every book that contains this material an X.

[carton253]

Okay... I watched a mini-series about King Arthur, where he had unknowingly had sex with his sister and that is where Modred came from. So...the plot is not new...it's just being repackaged in a different form.

[rockprof]

The manuscript for The Children of Hurin, to be published next spring, contains incest, suicide and a multitude of violent deaths.

So does the Bible.

[kb2614]

...contains incest, suicide and a multitude of violent deaths...

So did "The Once & Future King", another excellent fantasy book. I read "The Silmarillion". "The Children of Hurin" should be interesting though I don't recommend it for manic depressives. ;-)

[backhoe]

I always had suspicions that there was "stuff" going on behind the scenes that JRR was too gentlemanly to mention...

( Good to see you again, Ivan. )

[PzLdr]

I'd rather have seen a book about the Lord of the Nazgul. He was always the most interesting character in LOR, in my opinion.

[Da_Shrimp]

<geek mode>
Actually, Hurin was a Man, not an elf!
</geek mode>

[ZOOKER]

There's usually a reason why unpublished works from famous authors are unpublished. Most of the time the work is not up to the author's standards.

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[Old Student]

Kalevala is the Finnish National Myth, aka "The Land of Heroes." It is, by turns, light and dark, with more than it's fair share of the sort of gloom the northern European peoples abound in. Look at the Norse myth of Ragnarok. Seems to me the Russians have quite a bit of that sort of thing in their legends, too. Chernebog, for example.