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The Children of Hurin by J. R. R. Tolkien (Hardcover, 2007)
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The Children of Húrin is a novel based on J.R.R. Tolkien's writings, edited by his son Christopher Tolkien and published on 16 April 2007. The main text had been previously published as "Narn i Hîn Húrin" in Unfinished Tales.
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780007246229
eBay Product ID (ePID)91384305
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Children of Hurin
IllustratorAlan Lee
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
GenreFantasy, Fairy Tale
Number of Pages326 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height228mm
Item Width149mm
Item Weight540g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJ. R. R. Tolkien
EditorChristopher Tolkien
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 09 Aug, 2017
Children of Hurin
This book is recommended to fans of JRR Tolkien. It's one of the story chapters that was taken out from the book Silmarillion and tells the story on a fuller scale. The book can be read if you haven't already read the Silmarillion as it's a story that was written in the style that can be read by readers unfamiliar of the Silmarillion. The hardback version of the book itself is well made with good quality paper used and contains illustrations throughout the chapters. If there will be a film produced on the Silmarillion, this will probably be one of the main story's that will be produced on its own.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 01 Jul, 2022
The children of hurin
I love this book i have not finished ot yet but it does open your eyes in to how deep tolkien went with his stories it is amazingVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 25 Jul, 2019
Ok
Book in great condition a bit of a read but okVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 02 Jun, 2024
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- 05 Feb, 2021
all right nothing to add
all right nothing to addVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 25 Apr, 2024
Pleased.
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- 12 Dec, 2016
Very good
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- 26 Aug, 2022
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Good book for tolkien fansVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 17 Oct, 2016
Children of the hurin
It's a gift and sure hel loveVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 26 Apr, 2016
Fantastic value
Great book, good value n quality. This is 2nd one I have bought.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
