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The Children of Hurin : the tale of the children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Children of Hurin : the tale of the children of Húrin about?
The large print edition of the epic tale of The Children of Hurin 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. Includes a colour frontispiece, fold-out map and full-colour plate section of all of Alan Lee's paintings. 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 o
Who reads The Children of Hurin : the tale of the children of Húrin?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780345518842
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, High Fantasy
- Rating
- 3.94 / 5 (2,450 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14