The Children of Hurin 3.99 (73,977 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback English By (author) J. R. R. Tolkien , Edited by Christopher Tolkien Categories: Contemporary Fiction Fantasy Fantasy Books Myth & Legend Told As Fiction Sagas Description Painstakingly restored from Tolkiens manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, this paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Hurin 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 Turin and his sister Nienor will be tragically entwined. Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Hurin, 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 Hurin. Begun by J.R.R. Tolkien at the end of the First World War, The Children of Hurin 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. Product details Format Paperback | 320 pages Dimensions 129 x 198 x 20mm | 230g Publication date 16 Dec 2014 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom Language English Illustrations note Index 10 0007597339 13 9780007597338 Bestsellers rank 70,192