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The Children of Húrin is the most recently published story to take place in Middle-earth. It was started in 1918 and had been revised many times, but it wasn't published until 2007, when more than thirty years of notes written by J.R.R. Tolkien were compiled and edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien.

It is closer account of the story of the wanderings and deeds of Turin Turambar, son of Húrin, and his two sisters, Urwen and Nienor; and of the death of all three.

The Synopsis

Christopher 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 North: 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 formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into his story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the mythological persons of the God and the Dragon enter in fearfully 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 final and finished form. In this book I have endeavoured to construct, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention."

Release

The book was released on 17 April 2007 with Houghton Mifflin in the United States and HarperCollins in the United Kingdom.

J.R.P.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium

Published works

The Hobbit (1937) • The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring [1954] • The Two Towers [1954] • The Return of the King [1955]) • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book [1962] • The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle [1967]

Posthumous publications

Bilbo's Last Song [1974] • The Silmarillion [1977] • Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth [1980]
The History of Middle-earth (The Book of Lost Tales Part One [1983] • The Book of Lost Tales Part Two [1984] • The Lays of Beleriand [1985] • The Shaping of Middle-earth: The Quenta, The Ambarkanta, and The Annals [1986] • The Lost Road and Other Writings [1987] • The Return of the Shadow [1988] • The Treason of Isengard [1989] • The War of the Ring [1990] • Sauron Defeated [1992] • Morgoth's Ring [1993] • The War of the Jewels [1994] • The Peoples of Middle-earth [1996] • Index [2006])
The Great Tales of Middle-earth (The Children of Húrin [2007] • Beren and Lúthien [2017] • The Fall of Gondolin [2018])
The Nature of Middle-earth [2021] • The Fall of Númenor [2022] • The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien [2024]

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External link

The Children of Húrin at Tolkien Gateway

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-[[The Children of Húrin]]  is the most recent story to take place in [[Middle-earth]].  It has been compiled from more then thirty years of notes writen by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] by his son, [[Christopher Tolkien]].
-== Synopsis ==
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-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.
+[[The Children of Húrin]] is the most recently published story to take place in [[Middle-earth]]. It was started in 1918 and had been revised many times, but it wasn't published until 2007, when more than thirty years of notes written by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] were compiled and edited by his son, [[Christopher Tolkien]].
-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.
+It is closer account of the story of the wanderings and deeds of [[Turin Turambar]], son of Húrin, and his two sisters, [[Urwen]] and [[Nienor]]; and of the death of all three.
-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 formidable servant, Glaurang, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into his story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the mythological persons of the God and the Dragon enter in fearfully articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurang manipulated the fates of Turin and Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled
+== The Synopsis ==
-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 final and finished form. In this book I have endeavoured to construct, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention.
+'''[[Christopher 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 North: 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 formidable servant, [[Glaurung]], a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into his story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the mythological persons of the God and the Dragon enter in fearfully 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 final and finished form. In this book I have endeavoured to construct, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention."
+== Release ==
+The book was released on 17 April 2007 with Houghton Mifflin in the [[wikipedia:United States|United States]] and HarperCollins in the United Kingdom.
+{{Middle-earth}}
 ==See Also==
-*[http://tolkien.hcp-uk.co.uk/ Tolkien.co.uk] -  the website has recently been updated with special 'The Children of Húrin' exclusives.
+*[http://tolkien.hcp-uk.co.uk/ Tolkien.co.uk] - the website has recently been updated with special 'The Children of Húrin' exclusives.
 *[http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Children_of_H%C3%BArin_Release_Party The Children of Húrin Release Party]
 *http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20011428,00.html
-*http://www.tolkienestate.com/
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