UID:
kobvindex_ZLB34447998
ISBN:
9780007322589
Content:
" Painstakingly restored from Tolkien--™ s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, this illustrated paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Húrin 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. It is a legendary time long before The Lord of the Rings, and 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 Túrin and his sister Niënor will be tragically entwined. Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Húrin, 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, in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth, and destroy the children of Húrin. Begun by J.R.R. Tolkien at the end of the First World War, The Children of Húrin became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to a final and finished form. In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention. "
Content:
Biographisches: "John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on the 3rd January, 1892 at Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, but at the age of four he and his brother were taken back to England by their mother. After his father's death the family moved to Sarehole, on the south-eastern 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. " Biographisches: "Christopher Tolkien, born on 21st November 1924, is the third son of J.R.R. Tolkien. Appointed by Tolkien to be his literary executor, he has devoted himself since his father's death in 1973 to the editing and publication of unpublished writings, notably The Silmarillion and Beowulf, and the collections entitled Unfinished Tales and The History of Middle-earth. Since 1975 he has lived in France with his wife Baillie."
Language:
English
URL:
https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0292-1/{4875ED44-FCF6-4414-B518-F3323152E3DF}Img200.jpg
URL:
https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0292-1/487/5ED/44/{4875ED44-FCF6-4414-B518-F3323152E3DF}Img150.jpg
URL:
https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0292-1/487/5ED/44/ChildrenofHurin.epub
URL:
https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4875ED44-FCF6-4414-B518-F3323152E3DF&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
URL:
https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BBQ0AAA2_/products/4875ed44-fcf6-4414-b518-f3323152e3df/metadata
URL:
http://voebb.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=4875ED44-FCF6-4414-B518-F3323152E3DF
Author information:
Tolkien, Christopher
Author information:
Tolkien, J. R. R.