The Children of Húrin was published on April 17, 2007, by Tolkien’s son, Christopher, who also edited the book. Tolkien started to write it in 1918, but couldn’t finish it alive because of his several revisions.

The novel is places in the First Age of Middle-earth, in fact, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote that the setting is intended to be our Earth several thousand years ago, although the geographical and historical correspondence with the real world is tenuous.

This heroic romance is the tale of the Man, Húrin, who dared to defy Morgoth, and his family’s tragic destiny, as it follows his son Túrin Turambar’s travels through the lost world of Beleriand… The history starts during Túrin’s childhood, before the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, in which his father participated; the battle ended with Morgoth victory and the capture of Húrin. As Húrin wouldn’t revea the position of the secret city of Gondolin, Morgoth cursed him with his whole lineage.

The history of “The Children of Húrin” it’s just a part of a J.R.R. Tolkien mithology, which he worked during his whole life and started in 1917, when he was in the hospital, after getting sick in the World War One. During those times,Tolkien wrote a lot of stories, all under the name of “The Book of Lost Tales”; there were fourteen fully completed, and a lot more without an ending.

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