The Children of Húrin

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts, this is the first complete, standalone Middle-earth book by J.R.R. Tolkien since The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

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.

• An international No1 bestseller in hardback, with over 1 million copies sold in English

• The first complete standalone Middle-earth book by J.R.R. Tolkien since The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

• Includes a new map by Christopher Tolkien and paintings and drawings by Alan Lee (illustrator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and Oscar®-winning designer of the film trilogy).

• The Lord of the Rings was acclaimed worldwide as the most popular book of the 20th Century before the blockbuster films in 2001-3 – an additional 50 million copies have been sold since

• Publication to be supported by a high profile national consumer outdoor and press advertising campaign plus innovative digital activity on dedicated website

Competition: A;Game of Thrones;Song of Ice and Fire;The;Witcher;Chronicles of Narnia;His Dark Materials;Outlander;Stranger Things;Star Wars;Harry Potter;Hunger Games. George R R Martin;Ursula K. Le Guin;C. S. Lewis;Philip Pullman;Neil Gaiman;J K Rowling;Suzanne Collins;Margaret Atwood;Alan Lee;Christopher Tolkien