The Children of Húrin

The Children of Húrin
Christopher Tolkien

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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Contents

COVER PAGE (#ueab3b4e1-315b-5a5e-827d-ecf7da712af8)

TITLE PAGE (#u0de0bd6c-44d5-5ee0-8e16-3050bcc9ea76)

COPYRIGHT (#uc1e2281e-cf9c-57d0-ab9b-efb1b717459c)

PREFACE (#ufd0719d6-69a3-56ad-b852-cfa2d10ae6bf)

INTRODUCTION (#u585f3653-5a95-57bd-b51f-f24d8839779e)

NOTE ON PRONUNCIATION (#u0124ac17-3864-568c-b64a-2800b4c75816)

CHAPTER I: THE CHILDHOOD OF TÚRIN (#u89a5d5b8-38f3-580a-ad6c-f4653d010255)

CHAPTER II: THE BATTLE OF UNNUMBERED TEARS (#uf82ee5f4-521b-55ba-89f1-a22ef8856d6e)

CHAPTER III: THE WORDS OF HÚRIN AND MORGOTH (#u6a83282c-902e-5e7d-9107-2377dfd987b9)

CHAPTER IV: THE DEPARTURE OF TÚRIN (#u483010cc-5961-5521-8a41-cbee08690dde)

CHAPTER V: TÚRIN IN DORIATH (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER VI: TÚRIN AMONG THE OUTLAWS (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER VII: OF MÎM THE DWARF (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER VIII: THE LAND OF BOW AND HELM (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER IX: THE DEATH OF BELEG (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER X: TÚRIN IN NARGOTHROND (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER XI: THE FALL OF NARGOTHROND (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER XII: THE RETURN OF TÚRIN TO DOR-LÓMIN CHAPTER (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER XIII: THE COMING OF TÚRIN INTO BRETHIL (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER XIV: THE JOURNEY OF MORWEN AND NIËNOR TO NARGOTHROND (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER XV: NIËNOR IN BRETHIL (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER XVI: THE COMING OF GLAURUNG (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER XVII: THE DEATH OF GLAURUNG (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER XVIII: THE DEATH OF TÚRIN (#litres_trial_promo)

GENEALOGIES (#litres_trial_promo)

APPENDIX (#litres_trial_promo)

LIST OF NAMES IN THE TALE OF THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN (#litres_trial_promo)