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Master of Doom by Doom Mastered: Heroism, Fate, And Death in the Children of Hurin (Critical Essay)

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  • Title: Master of Doom by Doom Mastered: Heroism, Fate, And Death in the Children of Hurin (Critical Essay)
  • Author : Mythlore
  • Release Date : January 22, 2010
  • Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 251 KB

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IN A LETTER TO MILTON WALDMAN, J.R.R. TOLKIEN WROTE, "the Children of Hurin [is] the tragic tale of Turin Turambar and his sister Niniel--of which Turin is the hero" (Letters 150). Heroism is a predominant--if not the predominant--focus of Tolkien's entire creative corpus. His readers have come to expect a rich and kaleidoscopic range of heroes and heroines as varied as their races. Their characteristics are no less diverse; indeed, while some of his heroes fit conventions and meet a reader's expectations, others unexpectedly depart from convention and demand that the reader take a second look. According to Richard C. West, Turin Turambar is little more than an object of derision: "Tolkien uses the character of Turin to examine the theme of heroic excess, a hero who is the embodiment of a critique of heroism" (291). Of course, trivializing Turin is not the primary focus of West's essay "Setting the Rocket Off in Story" (which examines the Finnish "germ" of Tolkien's works), but his reading of the character of Turin is far too simplistic, and it fails to appreciate the rich thematic elements of one of Tolkien's least known heroes. Certainly, Turin is hardly the Arthurian Aragorn or the bumbling-but-lovably-Victorian Bilbo, but to pigeon-hole him as a caricature of what the hero should not look like is a sad misreading. The proposition then arises: if Turin is not a critique of heroism, what in fact is he? There are two viable answers: the Byronic Hero and the Absurd Hero, as defined in Albert Camus's essay "The Myth of Sisyphus." (1)


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