An absolute masterpiece. I have no comment on the form that I leave to the judgment of connoisseurs and especially of those who can read English. In substance, this story is an incredible sadness, but sadness of a tour to the terror and pity (in the Aristotelian sense): empathy Hurin, condemned by Morgoth to pure contemplation and helpless before his descendants mahleurs , empathy with the tragic fate of Turin. The strength of this story is to make us more tolerant, more sensitive towards mahleurs our fellow human beings, their attempt to get by, to youth also: how can rise or explain juvenile delinquency? How is it that children can be alone without cue and fireplace in a country devastated by war? This book attempts to answer these questions. And what makes it even stronger, like making strong all the work of Tolkien, moreover, is that the method borrowed to raise all these questions and all this awareness is not the cold Due to a modern sociologist, tactical action of a policy or morality of religion but fantasy is to say, the support of benevolence, how to express human truth through secondment of himself to his own daily and its condition: the most effective way to understand the condition of others. Tolkien's love we feel for his hero Turin Niniel symbol of a sense of universal respect for youth who were bequeathed a chaotic world and is only able to change it. A great book which together with the misery of the world Bourdieu, one of the last gasps of a humanism that Western civilization has lost, and yet was the necessary engine of the latter, failing which it will sink Motor indeed .