Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Children of Húrin (2007)

Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Tale of the Children of Húrin

Edited by Christopher Tolkien

Illustrated by Alan Lee

London, Harper Collins, 2007, third edition (?)

Hardcover. Blue cardboard. Title in gold on spine. With dustjacket
15 x 23 x 3,5 cm.
313 Pages

VERY GOOD

With a folded map in red and black at the back

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts, this is the first complete, standalone Middle-earth book by J.R.R. Tolkien since The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
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.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL ( 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

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