’I hope that its universality and power will grant it a place in English mythology’

--Independent on Sunday

’The darkest of all Toikien’s tales. Alan Lee’s illustrations complement the" writing splendidly’

--Times Literary Supplement

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 Tfirin 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 Huin, 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 Hfirin.

   List of illustrations

   Preface

   Introduction

   Note on Pronunciation

NARN I CHiN HURIN

The Tale of the Children of Hurin

I  The Childhood of Turin

II  The Battle of Unnumbered Tears

  III  The Words of Hurin and Morgoth

IV  The Departure of Turin

V  Turin in Doriath

VI  Turin among the Outlaws

  VII  Of Mim the Dwarf

 VIII  The Land of Bow and Helm

IX  The Death of Beleg

X  Turin in Nargothrond

XI  The Fall of Nargothrond

  XII  The Return of Turin to Dor-16min

 XIII  The Coming of Turin into Brethil

  XIV  The Journey of Morwen and Nienor to Nargothrond

XV  Nienor in Brethil

  XVI  The Coming of Glaurung

 XVII  The Death of Glaurung

XVIII  The Death of Turin

GENEALOGIES

I  The House of Hador & the People of Haleth

II  The House of Beor

  III  The princes of the Noldor

APPENDIX

  (1)  The Evolution of the Great Tales

  (2)  The Composition of the Text

LIST OF NAMES

   Note on the map