胡林的儿女
The Children of Húrin
J.R.R. Tolkien · 初版 2007 年
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为什么值得读
- 具有宛如希腊古典悲剧般的悲壮色彩
- 极好地还原与承袭了托尔金的原作笔风
- 将早期短篇传说扩写成独立完整的故事
The Children of Húrin的“宏大传说”，故事背景设定在The Lord of the Rings之前的传奇时代。第一代黑魔王Morgoth盘踞在北方庞大的Angband要塞之中；在Angband带来的恐惧阴影下，以及Morgoth针对精灵发动的战争中，Turin及其妹妹Nienor的命运将悲剧性地交织在一起。他们短暂而充满激情的生命完全被Morgoth原始的仇恨所笼罩，因为他们正是敢于当面反抗他的英雄Hurin的儿女。针对他们，Morgoth派出了他最可怖的仆从——化身为巨龙的强大灵体Glaurung，
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虚构类 - 《三体》三部曲，刘慈欣 - 《胡林的儿女》（The Children of Húrin），托尔金 - 《精灵宝钻》（The Silmarillion），托尔金 - 《霍比特人》（The Hobbit），托尔金 - 《指环王》（Lord Of The Rings）三部曲，托尔金 - 《绿里奇迹》（The Green Mile），斯蒂芬·金 非虚构类 - 《Practical Vim》第二版，Drew Neil - 《Pestens år: döden i Stockholm 1710》，Magnus Västerbro
Fiction - Three Body-trilogy, Cixin Liu - The Children of Húrin, Tolkien - The Silmarillion, Tolkien - The Hobbit, Tolkien - Lord Of The Rings-trilogy, Tolkien - The Green Mile, Stephen King Non-fiction - Practical Vim 2nd ed., Drew Neil - Pestens år: döden i Stockholm 1710, Magnus Västerbro
我知道这事见仁见智，但我读《胡林的儿女》时完全没那种感觉。我觉得它对托尔金风格的把握相当不错（当然，里面有相当大篇幅是直接一字不差、或者几乎一字不差地从《精灵宝钻》和《未完的传说》（Unfinished Tales）里的短篇版本搬过来的）。
I realize this is subjective, but I didn't get that feel at all from The Children of Hurin. I thought it did a pretty good job of capturing Tolkien's style (and, of course, significant passages were taken verbatim, or nearly so, from the shorter versions in The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales).
……骑着战象、身上涂着彩绘的哈拉德人（Haradrim），还有字面意义上根本不配算人的半兽人。那些主张和平的人都是些奸诈的蠢货、懦夫或是叛徒。但这并不会妨碍我一遍遍重读《精灵宝钻》、《霍比特人》、《指环王》和《胡林的儿女》。不过托尔金也是受限于他所处时代与环境的人，我们应该在肯定其优秀品质的同时，也不无视其局限。但要是直接给托尔金扣上法西斯的帽子，对我来说实在有点太扯了。{评论者见 http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2006/06/tolkien-fascist.html}
…elephant riding painted Haradrim, the literally subhuman orcs. Those counseling peace are perfidious fools, cowards or traitors. This won't keep me from rereading The Simirilian, The Hobbit, LOTR and the Children of Hurin. But Tolkien was a man of his time and place and we should appreciate his virtues without ignoring his vices. Calling Tolkien himself a fascist is quite a few bridges too far for me. {commenter at http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2006/06/tolkien-fascist.html}
……Joel Kotkin 写的《Warning to the Global Middle Class》，书里的不少担忧我也深有同感。轻松一点的则有《书店日记》（The Diary Of A Bookseller，Shaun Bythell 著）、《书店杂役》（A Factotum in the Book Trade，Shaun Bythell 著）、《胡林的儿女》（Children of Hurin，托尔金 著）
…Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin and I share many of its worries. On a more light hearted side The Diary Of A Bookseller (Shaun Bythell) A Factotum in the Book Trade (Shaun Bythell) Children of Hurin (Tolkien)
这确实可能是一种需要慢慢体会（甚至是重新拾起）的口味。如果你想看点不一样的托尔金故事——《胡林的儿女》其悲剧色彩丝毫不逊于古希腊悲剧。
It can certainly be an acquired (or reacquired) taste. If you want a different type of Tolkien story - the children of Hurin is tragic as anything the Greeks wrote.
我曾经着了魔一样地反复读《精灵宝钻》和《胡林的儿女》，从大体框架上讲它们是一模一样的，只是形式不同。《精灵宝钻》写得像本史书；而《胡林的儿女》则写得像本小说。贝伦那首长诗我从来就没硬啃下去过……
I have obsessively read the Silmarillion and the Children of Hurin, and they are overarchingly the same, just in different formats. The Silmarillion is written like a history book; the Children of Hurin is written like a novel. I never got through the poem of Beren…