The Children of Hurin

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By J. R. R. Tolkien

Assembled from Tolkien’s manuscripts by his son Christopher and presented for the first time as a single continuous story, with illustrations by Alan Lee.

Long before The Lord of the Rings, Morgoth rules from Angband, and Húrin defies him at the Battle of Unnumbered Tears. Morgoth curses his family, and the curse works itself out through Húrin’s son Túrin: a man of real courage who arrives too late, guesses wrong, and destroys everything he tries to protect. The darkest of Tolkien’s tales.

First published 2007