Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of THE KIDS of Húrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and GOD, THE FATHER from the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, eagles and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkie

You can find tales of Middle-earth from times a long time before The Lord from the Rings, and the story told with this book is defined in the great country that lay about The Children of Húrin further than the Gray 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 control time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the huge fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Túrin and his sister Nienor unfolded inside the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves.

Their short and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the kids of Húrin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. Against them he delivered his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a robust spirit by means of an enormous wingless dragon of fireplace. Into this story of brutal conquest and airline flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening wish, the Dark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Túrin and Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was satisfied.

The earliest versions of this story by J.R.R. Tolkien go back to the end from the First Globe War as well as the years that implemented; but long soon after, when GOD, THE FATHER of the Rings was completed, he composed it anew and significantly enlarged it in complexities of motive and personality: it became the dominating story in his later on work on Middle-earth. But he cannot take it to a final and finished form. With this book Christopher Tolkien offers constructed, after long study from the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without the editorial invention.