Children of Hurin

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		Children of Hurin
		Children of Hurin

基本信息·出版社：Harper Collins Omes
·页码：320 页
·出版日期：2009年04月
·ISBN：0007309368
·International Standard Book Number：0007309368
·条形码：9780007309368
·EAN：9780007309368
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：胡林的儿女

内容简介 Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, eagles and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to 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 West: 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, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Turin and his sister Nienor 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 Hurin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. Against them he sent his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the Dark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin and Nienor 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 a final and finished form. In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
作者简介 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on the 3rd January, 1892 at Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, but at the age of four he and his brother were taken back to England by their mother. After his father's death the family moved to Sarehole, on the south-eastern edge of Birmingham. Tolkien spent a happy childhood in the countryside and his sensibility to the rural landscape can clearly be seen in his writing and his pictures.
专业书评

Review "It has seemed to me for a long time that there was a good case for presenting my father's long version of the legend of the Children of Hurin as an independent work" Christopher Tolkien "The Children of Hurin is about to thrill and intrigue millions. It is safe to say that the 'great tale' of Turin is about to become a global myth!in its own dotty but also awe-inspiring way, it works." Sunday Times Culture "!worthy of a readership beyond Tolkien devotees!this book deserves to eclipse all his other posthumous writings, and stand as a worthy memorial to the imagination of Tolkien.' The Times "I hope that its universality and power will grant it a place in English mythology'! It isn't jolly, but then neither is Anthony and Cleopatra." The Independent on Sunday 'It is dry, mad, humourless, hard-going and completely brilliant. My ten-year-old read it in a day and a half and has not shut up about it since. Tolkien is always dismissed as a conservative, but what's striking about this book is how modern it seems. It comes with lavish and lovely artwork by Alan Lee.' The Independent --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Independent on Sunday "I hope that its universality and power will grant it a place in English mythology" --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Times Literary Supplement "The darkest of all Tolkien's tales. Alan Lee's illustrations complement the writing splendidly" --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
目录
List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Note on Pronunciation
NARN I CHiN HURIN
　The Tale of the Children of Hurin
　Ⅰ The Childhood of Turin
Ⅱ The Battle of Unnumbered Tears
Ⅲ The Words of Hurin and Morgoth
Ⅳ The Departure of Turin
Ⅴ Turin in Doriath
Ⅵ Turin among the Outlaws
Ⅶ Of Mim the Dwarf
Ⅷ The Land of Bow and Helm
Ⅸ The Death of Beleg
Ⅹ Turin in Nargothrond
Ⅺ The Fall of Nargothrond
Ⅻ The Return of Turin to Dor-lomin
　ⅩⅢ The Coming of Turin into Brethil
ⅩⅣ The Journey of Morwen and Nienor to Nargothrond
ⅩⅤ Nienor in Brethil
ⅩⅥ The Coming of Glaurung
　ⅩⅦ The Death of Glaurung
　ⅩⅧ The Death of Turinv GENEALOGIES
　Ⅰ The House of Hador & the People of Haleth
Ⅱ The House of Beor
Ⅲ The princes of the Noldor
APPENDIX
(1) The Evolution of the Great Tales
(2) The Composition of the Text
LIST OF NAMES
　Note on the map

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文摘 Excerpted from The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Alan Lee. Copyright ? 2007. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Questions for Alan Lee. We had the chance to ask Alan Lee a few questions about his illustrative collaboration with the world imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien:

Amazon: How much of a treat was it to get first crack at depicting entirely new characters rather than ones who had been interpreted many times before? Was there one who particularly captured your imagination? Lee: Although it was a great honor to illustrate The Children of Húrin, the characters and the main elements of the story line are familiar to those who have read The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales, and these narratives have inspired quite a few illustrators. Ted Nasmith has illustrated The Silmarillion and touched on some of the same characters and landscapes. This was the first time that I ventured into the First Age; while working on The Lord of the Rings books and films--and The Hobbit--I've had to refer back to events in Middle-earth history but not really depict them. I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends; these correspondences add layers and shades of meaning, and most of the characters in this story have those archetypal qualities. However, I prefer not to get too close to the characters because the author is delineating them much more carefully than I can, and I'm wary of interfering with the pictures that the text is creating in the reader's mind. Amazon: The Húrin story has been described as darker than some of Tolkien's other work. What mood did you try to set with your illustrations? Lee: It is a tragic story, but the darkness is offset by the light and beauty of Tolkien's elegiac writing. In the illustrations I tried to show some of the fragile beauty of the landscapes and create an atmosphere that would en
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