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The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Children of Hurin (original 2007; edition 2007)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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The Children of Húrin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The Silmarillion. Six thousand years before the One Ring is destroyed, Middle-earth lies under the shadow of the Dark Lord Morgoth. The greatest warriors among elves and men have perished, and all is in darkness and despair. But a deadly new leader rises, Túrin, son of Húrin, and with his grim band of outlaws begins to turn the tide in the war for Middle-earth -- awaiting the day he confronts his destiny and the deadly curse laid upon him.

The paperback edition of The Children of Húrin includes eight color paintings by Alan Lee and a black-and-white map.

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Member:acaruthers
Title:The Children of Hurin
Authors:J.R.R. Tolkien
Info:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2007), Hardcover, 313 pages
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The Children of Húrin by J. R. R. Tolkien (2007)

  1. 120
    The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien (Jitsusama)
    Jitsusama: The Silmarillion is an essential book to better understand the occurrences surrounding the Children of Hurin. It also contains a slightly shorter version of the tale.
  2. 41
    The Fall of Gondolin by J. R. R. Tolkien (Michael.Rimmer)
  3. 41
    Beren and Lúthien by J. R. R. Tolkien (Michael.Rimmer)
  4. 00
    The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson (themulhern)
    themulhern: A grim doom, lots of fighting, hidden identities, slightly different elves.
  5. 01
    The Story of Kullervo by J. R. R. Tolkien (Michael.Rimmer)
  6. 13
    The Whale Kingdom Quest by Ming-Wei (Rossi21)
    Rossi21: Good science fiction book, well worth a read
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Tolkien's legendarium has always been one filled with rather convoluted narratives, constantly changing to his newer writings. So having Christopher Tolkien make clearer versions of the Great Tales of Middle Earth is very nice.
This book also expands on the story given in Unfinished Tales, by combining passages from both Unfinished Tales and The Silmarillion.
And then there are the drawings of Alan Lee. Much has been said about his art, and I can't add anything new to the conversation. It suffises to say that his drawings are a wonderful addition to the narrative. ( )
  AureliaBehaeghel | Nov 15, 2024 |
A dizzyingly beautiful use of the English language that fleshes out a tale of stern ethics, eidetic in descriptions of nature and imagination. ( )
  GeigerLibrary | Oct 21, 2024 |
O mais poderoso guerreiro que já existiu na Terra-média fora Húrin, cujo orgulho era tão grande quanto sua força física. Ao ser capturado pelas forças de Morgoth, o Primeiro Senhor Sombrio, Húrin resiste às ameaças e torturas que lhe foram impostas no cativeiro e ousa zombar do líder maligno. As consequências de sua postura resoluta recaem, na forma de uma maldição, diretamente em sua família.
Morwen, esposa de Húrin, mesmo grávida e sob grande perigo, envia Túrin, seu filho primogênito, para o Reino élfico de Doriath, cujo rei recebe o menino e o protege das muitas ameaças que se espalham com o avanço do poderio de Morgoth. A criança é criada como um príncipe e se torna um destemido guerreiro, que herda o temperamento arredio e severo da mãe, bem como a destreza de batalha do pai. Túrin se torna um justiceiro nas terras ermas e o grande motivo de pavor por parte dos servos de Morgoth.
Sabendo que o Túrin era o misterioso guerreiro no ermo, o Senhor Sombrio dispende sua mais maliciosa criatura para trazer desgraça à família de Húrin: Glaurung, o Pai dos Dragões. O lagarto de fogo tece um plano venenoso e intrincado para destruir Túrin, sua mãe Morwen e sua irmã Nienor. Dessa forma, o Destino cobrará um alto preço pela arrogância de pai e filho.
Considerada a grande tragédia escrita por J.R.R. Tolkien, Os Filhos de Húrin apresenta uma narrativa ininterrupta e completa. Ao lado de Beren e Lúthien e A Queda de Gondolin, a história é considerada um dos “Três Grandes Contos dos Dias Antigos" que estão dispostos de maneira condensada em O Silmarillion.
O livro apresenta textos explicativos de Christopher Tolkien, bem como ilustrações coloridas e em preto e branco do respeitado ilustrador Alan Lee, ganhador do Oscar de Melhor Direção de Arte pela trilogia cinematográfica de O Senhor dos Anéis.
  AraujoGabriel | Jul 23, 2024 |
Muito antes da era de O Senhor dos Anéis, Morgoth, o primeiro Senhor do Escuro, lança uma terrível maldição contra toda a família de Húrin, o homem que tinha ousado desafiá-lo frente a frente. Assim, os destinos de Túrin e de sua irmã Niënor serão tragicamente entrelaçados. A vida breve e apaixonada dos dois irmãos é dominada pelo ódio de Morgoth, que envia seu mais temível servo, Glaurung, poderoso espírito na forma de um enorme dragão de fogo sem asas, numa tentativa de cumprir sua maldição e destruir os filhos de Húrin.
  AraujoGabriel | Jul 23, 2024 |
A masterful tale masterfully told. I was surprised that this was a real page turner - but perhaps I shouldn't have been. Tolkien here constructed the very core of the Indo-European mythic ethos. Dragons, chaos, betrayal, tragedy - what more could you ask for? Turin Turambar, Master of Doom by Doom Mastered. The illustrations were a pleasant surprise as well. If you're a fan of Middle Earth, this is another book to add to the canon. ( )
  dhaxton | May 25, 2024 |
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... So there's something very pagan about Tolkien's world, and it gets more pagan as we go further back. The Children of Húrin is practically Wagnerian. It has a lone, brooding hero, a supremely malicious dragon, a near-magical helmet, a long-standing curse, a dwarf of ambiguous moral character called Mîm and - the clincher, this - incest. Which is here a disaster and not, as in Wagner, a two-fingers-to-fate passion. Readers will already have come across the story in its essence in The Silmarillion and, substantially, in Unfinished Tales, which came out in 1980. One suspects that those who bought the latter book will not feel too cheated when they buy and read The Children of Húrin. ...

Christopher Tolkien has brought together his father's text as well, I think, as he can. In an afterword, he attests to the difficulty his father had in imposing "a firm narrative structure" on the story, and indeed it does give the impression of simply being one damned thing after another, with the hero, Túrin, stomping around the forests in a continuous sulk at his fate, much of which, it seems, he has brought upon himself.

As to whether the story brings out the feeling of "deep time" which Tolkien considered one of the duties of his brand of imaginative literature, I cannot really tell, for I do not take this kind of thing as seriously as I did when I was a boy and feel that perhaps the onus for the creation of such a sense of wonder is being placed too much on the reader. Actually, the First Age here seems a pretty miserable place to be; Orcs everywhere, people being hunted into outlawhood or beggary, and with no relief, light or otherwise, from a grumpy, pipe-smoking wizard. But it does have a strange atmosphere all of its own. Maybe it does work.
 
Inspired by the Norse tale of Sigurd and Fafnir, Tolkien first wrote a story about a dragon in 1899, at the age of 7. At school he discovered the Kalevala, a Finnish epic poem, and by 1914 was trying to turn the tale of Kullervo into “a short story somewhat on the lines of Morris’s romancesâ€. By 1919 he had combined these elements in what became the tale of Túrin Turambar.

The book is beautiful, but other than the atmospheric illustrations by Alan Lee, and a discussion of the editorial process, much of what lies between the covers was actually published in either The Silmarillion (1977) or Unfinished Tales (1980). Yet this new, whole version serves a valuable purpose. In The Children of Húrin we could at last have the successor to The Lord of the Rings that was so earnestly and hopelessly sought by Tolkien’s publishers in the late 1950s.
 

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Ciuferri, CaterinaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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The Children of Húrin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The Silmarillion. Six thousand years before the One Ring is destroyed, Middle-earth lies under the shadow of the Dark Lord Morgoth. The greatest warriors among elves and men have perished, and all is in darkness and despair. But a deadly new leader rises, Túrin, son of Húrin, and with his grim band of outlaws begins to turn the tide in the war for Middle-earth -- awaiting the day he confronts his destiny and the deadly curse laid upon him.

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