The Children of Hurin by Tolkien, J. R. R.;Tolkien, Christopher - 2007

London: HarperCollins, 2007 '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 West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World'. . '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 Lords 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 a 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'. (Christopher Tolkien). 313p. illus. Looks unread.. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Illus. by Alan Lee.