"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 that 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 afterward, 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 I have endeavored to construct, after
long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any
editorial invention." -- Christopher Tolkien
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