Narn I Chin Hurin: The Tale of the Children of Hurin

London: HarperCollinsPublishers (Harper Collins) 2007 First Edition, First Printing 8vo 313pp + Fold-Out Map ill. ISBN 978-0-00-724622-9, 2007 Very Fine original blue cloth, in Very Fine DW, protected in Brodart sleeve. Wrap-around jacket art & eight colour plates, plus chapter heading illustrations by Alan Lee. As well as an expanded narrative text of the Narn I Hin Hurin, this volume contains Geneologies, appendices, a list of names, and a fold-out map. Expanded from The Narn I Hin Hurin, originally published in "Unfinished Tales", and loosely based on the Tale of Sigurd the Volsung from the German Nibelungenlied, the story unfolds in the remote First Age of Middle-Earth when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, the tragedy of Turin and his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves. Their brief and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Hurinm the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. Against them he sent his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with fading hope, the Dark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin & Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled.