The Children of Húrin
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Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, this illustrated paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Húrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves, dragons, Dwarves and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien.It is a legendary time long before The Lord of the Rings, and Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and within the shadow of the fear of Angband, and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves, the fates of Túrin and his sister Niënor will be tragically entwined.Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Húrin, the man who dared to defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire, in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth, and destroy the children of Húrin.Begun by J.R.R. Tolkien at the end of the First World War, The Children of Húrin became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to a final and finished form. In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention.
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Christopher Tolkien. The Children of Húrin
CHAPTER I. THE CHILDHOOD OF TÚRIN
CHAPTER II. THE BATTLE OF UNNUMBERED TEARS
CHAPTER III. THE WORDS OF HÚRIN AND MORGOTH
CHAPTER IV. THE DEPARTURE OF TÚRIN
CHAPTER V. TÚRIN IN DORIATH
CHAPTER VI. TÚRIN AMONG THE OUTLAWS
CHAPTER VII. OF MÎM THE DWARF
CHAPTER VIII. THE LAND OF BOW AND HELM
CHAPTER IX. THE DEATH OF BELEG
CHAPTER X. TÚRIN IN NARGOTHROND
CHAPTER XI. THE FALL OF NARGOTHROND
CHAPTER XII. THE RETURN OF TÚRIN TO DOR-LÓMIN*
CHAPTER XIII. THE COMING OF TÚRIN INTO BRETHIL
CHAPTER XIV. THE JOURNEY OF MORWEN AND NIËNOR TO NARGOTHROND
CHAPTER XV. NIËNOR IN BRETHIL
CHAPTER XVI. THE COMING OF GLAURUNG
CHAPTER XVII. THE DEATH OF GLAURUNG
CHAPTER XVIII. THE DEATH OF TÚRIN
GENEALOGIES
APPENDIX
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BAILLIE TOLKIEN
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The memory of Treebeard, ‘Ent the earthborn, old as mountains’, was indeed long. He was remembering ancient forests in the great country of Beleriand, which was destroyed in the tumults of the Great Battle at the end of the Elder Days. The Great Sea poured in and drowned all the lands west of the Blue Mountains, called Ered Luin and Ered Lindon: so that the map accompanying The Silmarillion ends in the east with that mountain-chain, whereas the map accompanying The Lord of the Rings ends in the west with the same range; and the coastal lands beyond the mountains named on that map Forlindon and Harlindon (North Lindon and South Lindon) were all that remained in the Third Age of the country called both Ossiriand, Land of Seven Rivers, and also Lindon, in whose elm-woods Tree-beard once walked.
He walked also among the great pine-trees on the highland of Dorthonion (‘Land of Pines’), which afterwards came to be called Taur-nu-Fuin, ‘the Forest under Night’, when Morgoth turned it into ‘a region of dread and dark enchantment, of wandering and despair’ (†); and he came to Neldoreth, the northern forest of Doriath, realm of Thingol.
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