Below is a list of reviews of The Children of Húrin.
Positive
- 'New' Tolkien splendidly rewarding by Bruce DeSilva (AP)
- What took them so long? by Bryan Appleyard (The Sunday Times)
- Lord of the ruins by Andrew O'Hehir (Salon.com)
- The Children of Húrin Review by Michael D.C. Drout
- The Children of Húrin - Tolkien is back with a vengeance Commentary by Marcel Bülles
- Middle-earth is back by hoc/Reuters (Spiegel-Online.de) Irrelevant, quotes D. Brawn.
- The stuff of legend Robbie Hudson (The Sunday Times)
- Tolkien proves he's still the king by Vit Wagner (TheStar.com)
- Tolkien, Before Bilbo by Jeremy Marshall (The Times)
- ...mythic resonance and grim sense of inexorable fate... by Elizabeth Hand (Washington Post)
- A last, sombre visit to Middle Earth John Garth (Telegraph.co.uk)
- A worthy addition to one of the most cherished mythologies.. Kelly Grovier (The Observer)
- Hobbit forming Nicholas Lezard (The Observer)
- Spreading the elfish gene Frank Cottrell Boyce
- The Children of Hurin by Brandon Cozart
Negative
- Boring ‘New’ Tolkien Novel Excites Boring People by C J Davies
- Away with the fairies by Tom Deveson (The Sunday Times)
- Just kick the hobbit and don't suffer 'The Children of Hurin' by Marta Salij (FreeP.com)
- The Tolkien estate gets into bad hobbits The Digested Read (Column/Parody) by John Crace
- Hurin, Turin, Schmurin by Henry Gee