The Children of Húrin

The Children of Húrin is the first of the Great Tales, begun by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1918 and published in 2007 (ISBN 0-618-89464-0), once more than thirty years-worth of his notes were compiled and edited by his son, Christopher.
It is the expanded account of the story of the wanderings and deeds of Túrin Turambar, son of Húrin, and his sister Niënor, in their struggle against fate (and the curse cast upon Húrin's kin). It is considered to be among the darkest examples of any of Tolkien's works, as well as the foremost substantiation of any argument against disregarding the High Fantasy genre as colorless or "holier than thou". The hero is doomed yet strives toward goodness in spite of inadvertently murdering friends and becoming his sister's lover. Túrin fights against self-loathing as well as sorrow throughout, until the culmination of the novel's events. 
The book was released on 17 April, 2007 by Houghton Mifflin in the United States, and by HarperCollins in the United Kingdom. 
==Synopsis==
Christopher Tolkien:
"There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the North: lands where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World.
In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and the tragedy of Turin and his sister Niënor 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 Húrin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. Against them he sent his formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into his story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the mythological persons of the God and the Dragon enter in fearfully articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Túrin and Niënor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled.
The earliest versions of this story by J.R.R. Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War and the years that followed; but long afterwards, when The Lord of the Rings was finished, he wrote it anew and greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive and character: it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to final and finished form. In this book I have endeavoured to construct, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention."
==Contents==
===Chapters===
#The Childhood of Túrin
#The Battle of Unnumbered Tears
#The Words of Húrin and Morgoth
#The Departure of Túrin
#Túrin in Doriath
#Túrin among the Outlaws
#Of Mîm the Dwarf
#The Land of Bow and Helm
#The Death of Beleg
#Túrin in Nargothrond
#The Fall of Nargothrond
#The Return of Túrin to Dor-lómin
#The Coming of Túrin into Brethil
#The Journey of Morwen and Niënor to Nargothrond
#Niënor in Brethil
#The Coming of Glaurung
#The Death of Glaurung
#The Death of Túrin
=== Genealogies ===
#The House of Hador & the People of Haleth 
#The House of Bëor
#The Princes of the Noldor
=== Appendices ===
#The Evolution of the Great Tales
#The Composition of the Text
*List of Names
==Development==
When becoming a novel in form, it was designed as a single and continuous narrative, not necessarily a source covering every account of the narrative (or alternate version of the tale). Certain aspects related to Húrin following the story are left out but do get brought up in the follow up Beren and Lúthien, as does extended story for Mîm and his curse of the gold of Glaurung, and its relevance to the fall of Doriath, and corruption of the Dwarves and others who touch it. Though there is still much of Túrin's extended history left out of either source.
Additionally, certain aspects of events Túrin's band in Mîm's fortress and his curse there differ from what was described in The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales (though it contains much of the latter version), sometimes in the ordering of events, or inclusion/removal of certain characters. This was in part Christopher Tolkien's attempt to utilize newer sources he had discovered after those sources were published. There are a few additional details that differ between other sources, and other versions included in the The History of Middle-earth.
Most of the material of the story is from prose sources. Very little from the Lay of the Children of Húrin was used, and where it was, it was amended from verse-form to prose. When elements from Narn i Chîn Húrin, most of the side story of Húrin is excluded, i.e. his adventures and fate (which are fully recounted in the Lost Tale The Wanderings of Húrin). 
== Depiction in art ==
Outside the publication of The Children of Húrin, many scenes from the tale of Túrin have been illustrated by the independent artist Anke Eissmann.http://anke.edoras-art.de/anke_tolkien_turin.html
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Die Kinders van Húrin
Albanian 	Fëmijët e Húrin
Amharic 	ሑሪን ልጆች
Arabic 	أطفال حورين
Armenian 	երեխաները Հուռին
Azerbaijani 	Hurinin uşaqları
Basque 	Hurin Haurrak
Belarusian Cyrillic	Дзеці Хурына
Bengali 	হুরিন সন্তান
Bosnian 	Hurinova Djeca
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Децата на Хурин
Burmese 	အမြိုးသား ဟုရိန္
Cambodian 	កុមារនេះ ហុរិន
Catalan 	Els Fills d'en Hurin
Cebuano 	Ang mga Anak sa Húrin
Corsican 	U Baracca di Húrin
Croatian 	Húrinova Djeca
Czech 	Húrinovy Děti
Danish 	Húrins Børn
Dutch 	De Kinderen van Húrin
Esperanto 	La Infanoj de Hurin
Estonian 	Húrini lapsed
Fijian 	Na Luve ni Húrin
Filipino 	Ang mga Anak ni Húrin
Finnish 	Húrinin lasten tarina
French 	Les Enfants de Húrin
Frisian 	De Bern fan Húrin
Galician 	Os Fillos de Húrin
Georgian 	ჰურინის შვილები
German 	Die Kinder Húrins
Greek 	Τα Παιδιά του Χούριν
Gujarati 	હુરિન બાળકો
Haitian Creole 	A Timoun de Húrin
Hawaiian 	O na Mamo a Hurin
Hebrew 	ילדי הורין
Hindi 	हिन्दि के बच्चे
Hmong 	Cov Me nyuam ntawm Hurin
Hungarian 	Húrin Gyermekei
Icelandic 	Börn af Húrin
Irish Gaelic 	Clann na Húrin
Italian 	I Figli di Húrin
Japanese 	の子どもたち フーリン
Kannada 	ಹುರಿನ್ ಮಕ್ಕಳು
Kazakh 	Һұрінның балалары (Cyrillic) Hurinnıñ balaları (Latin)
Korean 	후린의 아이들
Kurdish 	Zarokan ji Hurin (Kurmanji Kurdish)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Hуриндын балдар
Latin 	Filiorum Húrin
Latvian 	Hurina bērni
Lithuanian 	Hurino vaikai
Luxembourgish 	D'Kanner vun Húrin
Macedonian Cyrillic	Децата на Хурин
Malagasy 	Ny Ankizy ny Húrin
Malaysian 	Bani Húrin
Malayalam 	ഹുരിന് സന്തതികളെ
Maltese 	It-tfal ta ' l-Húrin
Maori 	Nga Tama a Hurin
Marathi 	हुरिन लोकांना
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Hурин-ийн хүүхдүүд
Nepalese 	हुरिन को बच्चाहरु
Norwegian 	Húrins Barn
Pashto 	د ماشومانو د حورین
Persian 	فرزندان هورین
Polish 	Dzieci Húrina
Portuguese 	Os Filhos de Húrin
Punjabi 	ਹੁਰਿਨ ਦੇ ਬੱਚੇ
Romanian 	Copiii lui Húrin
Russian 	Дети Хурина
Samoan 	O le Fanau a Húrin
Scottish Gaelic 	Clann de Húrin
Serbian 	Деца Хуринова (Cyrillic) Deca Hurinova (Latin)
Sesotho 	Bana ba Hurin
Sindhi 	جي ٻارن حعرڳن ?
Sinhalese 	හුරින් වල දරුවන්
Slovak 	Húrinove deti
Somalian 	Carruurta ee Húrin
Spanish 	Los Hijos de Húrin
Sundanese 	Nu Barudak tina Húrin
Swahili 	Watoto wa Húrin
Swedish 	Húrins Barn
Tahitian 	Te Mau tamarii o te Húrin
Tajik Cyrillic 	Кӯдакони Ҳурин
Tamil 	ஹுரிந் புத்திரர்
Telugu 	హురిన వంశస్థులు
Thai 	ตำนานบุตรแห่งฮูริน
Tongan 	E Fanau 'a e Húrin
Turkish 	Húrin'in Çocukları
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Діти Гуріна
Urdu 	کے بچوں حورین
Uzbek 	Ҳурин Фарзандлари (Cyrillic) Hurin Farzandlari (Latin)
Yiddish 	די קינדער פון הורין
Zulu 	Abantwana bakwa-Hurin
==External links==
*Tolkien.co.uk
*The Children of Húrin Release Party
*http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20011428,00.html
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