Question: Who was the hero of the book by J.R.R. Tolkien published in 1977?
Context: Tolkienmoot (also advertised as Tolkien Moot and TolkienMoot (camel case)) originally began under the name of Merpcon in 2005.  Always a convention focused on J.R.R. Tolkien and gaming in Middle-earth, as the venue expanded to include a broader array of game systems, guest speakers, and special events, it was decided to change the title to Tolkienmoot in 2009.  The convention was founded, and continuous to be funded and run by Hawke Robinson, founder of the Inland Empire Eä Tolkien Society an official Smial of the U.K. Tolkien Society, RPG Research, Other Minds Magazine, Middle-earth Radio, Middle-earth Talk, Eä RPG, and other endeavours, as well as an active member of CAR-PGa (Committee for the Advancement of Role-Playing Games website), WSTRA (Washington State Therapeutic Recreation Association website), and others. Húrin is a fictional character in the Middle-earth legendarium of J. R. R. Tolkien.  He is introduced in "The Silmarillion" as a hero of Men during the First Age, said to be the greatest warrior of both the Edain and all the other Men in Middle-earth.  Húrin Thalion (pronounced , Sindarin for "The Steadfast") was the elder son of Galdor the Tall of the House of Hador and Hareth of the Haladin, and he had a younger brother named Huor. The Soddit "or Let's Cash in Again" is a 2003 parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit", written by A.R.R.R. Roberts.  The book jacket states: "Following on (inevitably, some might say) from the frankly unlikely success of "Bored of the Rings" comes a new book from an entirely different author that parodys ["sic"] Tolkien's other (and undoubtedly shorter) masterpiece." J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century is a work of literary criticism written by Tom Shippey.  It is about the work of J.R.R. Tolkien.  In it, Shippey argues for the relevance of Tolkien today and attempts to firmly establish Tolkien's literary merits. The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community (2007) is a non-fiction book written by Diana Pavlac Glyer, an Inklings scholar and English professor at Azusa Pacific University.  "The Company They Keep" challenges the commonly held belief that the Inklings did not influence each other through a detailed and engaging examination of both published and unpublished works, papers, and letters written by J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, Warren Lewis and the lesser-known writers who comprised the Inklings. The Silmarillion is a collection of mythopoeic works by English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, edited and published posthumously by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay.  "The Silmarillion", along with J. R. R. Tolkien's other works, forms an extensive, though incomplete, narrative that describes the universe of Eä in which are found the lands of Valinor, Beleriand, Númenor, and Middle-earth within which "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" take place. Eru Ilúvatar is a fictional character in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.  He is introduced in "The Silmarillion" as the supreme being of the universe, creator of all existence.  In Tolkien's invented Elvish language Quenya, "Eru" means "The One", or "He that is Alone" and "Ilúvatar" signifies "Father of All".  The names appear in Tolkien's work both in isolation and paired ("Eru Ilúvatar"). Túrin Turambar (pronounced ) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. " "Turambar and the Foalókë"", begun in 1917, is the first appearance of Túrin in the legendarium.  J.R.R. Tolkien consciously based the story on the medieval tale of Kullervo in the Finnish mythological poem "Kalevala", saying that it was "an attempt to reorganize...the tale of Kullervo the hapless, into a form of my own".  Also called ""The Tale of Grief"", ""Narn i Chîn Húrin"", commonly called "The Narn", it tells of the tragic fates of the children of Húrin, namely his son Túrin (Turambar) and his daughter Nienor.  Excerpts of the story were published before, in "The Silmarillion" (prose), "Unfinished Tales" (prose), "The Book of Lost Tales" Part II (prose), "The Lays of Beleriand" (verse in alliterative long-lines) and most recently in 1994 in "The War of the Jewels" (prose), the latter three part of "The History of Middle-earth" series. The J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings OST is the soundtrack to Ralph Bakshi's animated film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", featuring music composed by Leonard Rosenman.  It was issued as a double-LP in 1978.  In 2001, the album was reissued on CD, with bonus tracks.  The album reached #33 in the Canadian RPM Magazine album charts, February 24, 1979. Sellic Spell (] , an Old English phrase meaning "wondrous tale" and taken from the poem "Beowulf") is a short prose text available in Modern and Old English redactions, written by J.R.R. Tolkien in a creative attempt to reconstruct the folktale underlying the narrative in the first two thousand lines of the Old English poem "Beowulf".  Among other things, it seeks to clarify and integrate a number of narrative strands in the Anglo-Saxon poem.  The resulting text is a loose variant of the "Skilful Companions" type of folktale, in which each of several characters (two or three in Tolkien's text, depending on the redaction) has a valuable but specific skill.  Unlike in folktales of that type, however, the skills of Tolkien's characters do not supplement each other in the resolution of the narrative problem.  Tolkien's recasting of the material also incorporates the sluggish youth motif and the abandonment of the hero at the waterfall, both elements found in the analogous Old Icelandic "Grettis saga".  The suggestion that a waterfall like that of "Grettis saga" was part of the original setting of the pool of monsters in "Beowulf" was made by W.W. Lawrence in 1912.
Answer: Húrin