Painstakingly restored from Tolkiens manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story this paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Huacute;rin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves dragons Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien.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 Tuacute;rin and his sister Nieuml;nor will be tragically entwined.Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Huacute;rin 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 Huacute;rin.Begun by J.R.R. Tolkien at the end of the First World War The Children of Huacute;rin 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.