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A review by susana82
Beren e Lúthien by J.R.R. Tolkien
adventurous
challenging
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
This is supposed to be the greatest of love stories, but I don't really think it is.
There is some epicness to it, and the base of the story is good, but I didn't find it amazing.
However, the imagination of Tolkien is quite amazing, of course.
We do not follow a straight timeline for this story. The narration of the story and its making go back and fourth in time, and not only in prose but also in verse. We get to read different versions of the story where many important events are changed or replaced by others, and even the names of some characters are altered, or some characters are added while others disappear.
Tolkien could spend a long time working on a story with all its details, and then would abandon it to dedicate himself to other things, and then he would have no problems to start from zero and write the story in a different direction and make as many changes as he thought better.
It was both confusing and quite interesting to read the different versions, and along with other small complementary texts that only enrich the world of Middle Earth.
Tolkien spends a lot of time adding a lot of details or creating alternative versions, but sometimes I wish he could spend more time on the same story and give it as much detail as he did the Lord of the Rings, for instance.
Nonetheless, this is a nice book.
There is some epicness to it, and the base of the story is good, but I didn't find it amazing.
However, the imagination of Tolkien is quite amazing, of course.
We do not follow a straight timeline for this story. The narration of the story and its making go back and fourth in time, and not only in prose but also in verse. We get to read different versions of the story where many important events are changed or replaced by others, and even the names of some characters are altered, or some characters are added while others disappear.
Tolkien could spend a long time working on a story with all its details, and then would abandon it to dedicate himself to other things, and then he would have no problems to start from zero and write the story in a different direction and make as many changes as he thought better.
It was both confusing and quite interesting to read the different versions, and along with other small complementary texts that only enrich the world of Middle Earth.
Tolkien spends a lot of time adding a lot of details or creating alternative versions, but sometimes I wish he could spend more time on the same story and give it as much detail as he did the Lord of the Rings, for instance.
Nonetheless, this is a nice book.