The story of “The Children of Hurin” has made the strongest impression on me since my first encounter with the Silmarillion, it was the story that was the first thing I began to illustrate in Tolkien’s Legendarium .
Perhaps by now I can already discern a pattern to what captures my attention and makes me create around the theme: - a terrible injustice in the face of which the characters show firmness and fortitude… As one of my artist friends said, “an impression is like a wound and you try to heal it with a painting”. The Children of Hurin is along with Atrabeth another such non-healing wound, I hope to return to this subject in the near future)
