The Children of Hurin

Overview

The 'Great Tale' of The Children of Hurin, set during the legendary time before The Lord of the Rings. Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and within the shadow of the fear of Angband, and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves, the fates of Turin and his sister Nienor will be tragically entwined. Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Hurin, the man who dared to defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulates the fates of Turin and Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth.

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Bio of J.R.R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, at Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State of South Africa; but at the age of 4, he and his brother were taken back to England by their mother. After his father's death, the family moved to Sarehole, on the southeastern edge of Birmingham. Tolkien spent a happy childhood in the countryside, and his sensibility to the rural landscape can clearly be seen in his writing and his pictures. His mother died when he was only 12, and both he and his brother were made wards of the local priest and sent to King Edward's School in Birmingham, where Tolkien shone in his classical work. After completing a First in English at the University of Oxford, Tolkien married Edith Bratt. He was also commissioned in the Lancashire Fusiliers and fought in the Battle of the Somme in World War I. After the war, he obtained a post on the New English Dictionary and began to write the mythological and legendary cycle which he originally called The Book of Lost Tales, but which eventually became known as The Silmarillion. In 1920 Tolkien was appointed Reader in English Language at the University of Leeds, and this was the beginning of a distinguished academic career, which culminated in his election as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. Meanwhile Tolkien wrote for his children and told them the story of The Hobbit. It was his publisher, Stanley Unwin, who asked for a sequel to The Hobbit, and gradually Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings, a huge story that took 12 years to complete and which was not published until Tolkien was approaching retirement. After retirement, Tolkien and his wife lived near Oxford, but then moved to Bournemouth. Tolkien returned to Oxford after his wife's death in 1971. He died on September 2, 1973, leaving The Silmarillion to be edited for publication by his son, Christopher.

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Imprint

HarperCollins

Filesize

4.95 MB

Number of Pages

320

eBook ISBN

9780061917660