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 H煤rin 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 T煤rin and his sister Ninor will be tragically entwined.
Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of H煤rin,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 H煤rin.
Begun by J.R.R. Tolkien at the end of the First World War,The Children of H煤rin 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.
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780007252268Number of pages: 320Weight: 300 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 25 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"Deserves to eclipse all his other posthumous writings,and stand as a worthy memorial to the imagination of Tolkien" The Times
"I hope that its universality and power will grant it a place in English mythology" Independent on Sunday
"The darkest of all Tolkien's tales. Alan Lee's illustrations complement the writing splendidly" Times Literary Supplement
J. R. R. Tolkien
A legendary fantasy writer best known as the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction asThe Hobbit,The Lord of the Rings,The SilmarillionandThe Children of Hurin.
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