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tags=["Fantasy","Epic"]
title=The Children of Hurin
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authors=J. R. R. Tolkien
narrators=Christopher Lee
publishedYear=2006
publisher=HarperCollins Publishers Limited
isbn=
asin=B0036GTJP2
language=English
genres=Science Fiction & Fantasy
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explicit=N
abridged=N

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There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings. 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 Túrin 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 Húrin, 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 of a huge wingless dragon of fire.  Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, 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 fulfilled.  The earliest versions of this Tolkien story go back to the end of the First World War and the years that followed. But long afterwards, when The Lord of the Rings was finished, he revised and greatly enlarged it, enhancing complexities of motive and character. It 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.

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title=Chapter 1 - The Childhood of Túrin
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end=3443.203
title=Chapter 2 - The Battle of Unnumbered Tears
[CHAPTER]
start=3443.203
end=4120.215
title=Chapter 3 - The Words of Húrin and Morgoth
[CHAPTER]
start=4120.215
end=5757.331
title=Chapter 4 - The Departure of Túrin
[CHAPTER]
start=5757.331
end=7890.328
title=Chapter 5 - Túrin in Doriath
[CHAPTER]
start=7890.328
end=10558.941
title=Chapter 6 - Túrin Among the Outlaws
[CHAPTER]
start=10558.941
end=13126.954
title=Chapter 7 - Of Mîm the Dwarf
[CHAPTER]
start=13126.954
end=14347.086
title=Chapter 8 - The Land of Bow and Helm
[CHAPTER]
start=14347.086
end=15236.104
title=Chapter 9 - The Death of Beleg
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start=15236.104
end=16693.103
title=Chapter 10 - Túrin in Nargothrond
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end=18025.023
title=Chapter 11 - The Fall of Nargothrond
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end=19223.034
title=Chapter 12 - The Return of Túrin to Dor-Lómin
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end=19956.043
title=Chapter 13 - The Coming of Túrin into Brethil
[CHAPTER]
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end=22010.183
title=Chapter 14 - The Journey of Morwen and Niënor to Nargothrond
[CHAPTER]
start=22010.183
end=22994.185
title=Chapter 15 - Niënor in Brethil
[CHAPTER]
start=22994.185
end=24738.183
title=Chapter 16 - The Coming of Glaurung
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end=26673.364
title=Chapter 17 - The Death of Glaurung
[CHAPTER]
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end=28287.796
title=Chapter 18 - The Death of Túrin