![]() ![]() The remainder of the plot follows Húrin's struggling son Túrin and daughter Niënor as the curse winds its way toward a terrible conclusion. Húrin refused and the enraged Morgoth cast a curse upon him and his family for all eternity. The Dark Lord offered Húrin freedom in return for revealing the location of the Elvish city of Gondolin. The various versions and parts have previously been published in The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, and The History of Middle-earth known as Narn i Chîn Húrin (aka "The Narn"), but The Children of Húrin is the first publication to compile it all into a single complete text.įollowing the cataclysmic destruction of the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, Húrin, the greatest of all mortal warriors, was captured by the forces of Morgoth. It exists in many versions, both in prose and in poetry, some almost complete and some as fragments. ![]() Together with Beren and Lúthien and The Fall of Gondolin, this is one of Tolkien's "Great Tales" of the First Age of Middle-Earth-one of the earliest and most elaborated tales. Tolkien, it was edited posthumously by his son Christopher. ![]()
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