Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first ti
me as a fully continuous and standalone story, this paperback of the epic tale o
f The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Ring
s with Elves, dragons, Dwarves and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters u
nique 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 Nort
h; and within the shadow of the fear of Angband, and the war waged by Morgoth ag
ainst the Elves, the fates of Turin and his sister Nienor will be tragically ent
wined. Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred th
at Morgoth bears them as the children of Hurin, the man who dared to defy him to
his face.
