Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for
the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic
tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and
The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves,
eagles and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to
Tolkien. There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The
Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the
great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands
where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great
cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. In that remote
time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of
Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Turin
and his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of
Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret
cities of the Elves. Their brief and passionate lives were
dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the
children of Hurin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him
to his face. Against them he sent his most formidable servant,
Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon
of fire. Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest
hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the
Dark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Sardonic
and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin and Nienor by
lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was
fulfilled. The earliest versions of this story by J.R.R. Tolkien go
back to the end of the First World War and the years that followed;
but long afterwards, when The Lord of the Rings was finished, he
wrote it anew and greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive and
character: it 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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