“Thousands of years before The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth was plagued by struggles between Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, and the Elves, allied with Men. It is against Túrin and Niënor, the children of Húrin, that Morgoth will launch a terrible curse, forcing them to an unhappy and wandering life, to take revenge on the hero who dared to defy him. The Children of Húrin, a work undertaken by Tolkien during the First World War, is aimed at readers of The Lord of the Rings, who will find the breath of this novel in the story of Túrin, a human hero who seeks his place among Elves and Men in a world at war; deceived by fate, he fights in a spectacular and tragic way against Morgoth, introducing us to a little-known past of Middle-earth. »