The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. TolkienMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I thought I was over - at least for a good long while - the mythological backstory to Middle Earth Tolkien spent so much time on, if never really completed. However, with this narrated by Sir Christopher Lee, so...
Well, this epic fantasy I can really see brought to the big screen in a compelling way for its rash of characters not so god-like that they cannot be related to. The history here without the back story elaborated upon in The Silmarillion is closer to the The Lord of the Rings class of material. I can even see it dragged out to two or three flicks like Peter Jackson did with The Hobbit. You can lay it all out with the mega-evil Morgoth and the adventures of noble Túrin, son of Húrin of the race of Men, and all that. Worth a whole film is tragic Mîm, a "Petty-dwarf", disliking Elves and betraying Túrin and his outlaw companions to orcs. Actually the greyness of the characters - not just pure good or pure evil - seems more mature and considered than the more predictable and one-dimensional LOTR characters. You have dragon slaying and this all ends like some tragic opera with Niënor remembering her entire life and knowing that her unborn child was begotten in incest, resulting in suicide. Let's see it made, though I guess that'll never happen.
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