The Children of Húrin is one of Tolkien’s darkest and most tragic tales, set in the First Age of Middle-earth. Unlike the sweeping, mythic style of The Silmarillion , this book is a coherent, novel-length narrative edited by Christopher Tolkien. It follows Túrin Turambar, a hero cursed by the dark lord Morgoth, leading to a relentless sequence of doom, betrayal, and sorrow.
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