Children of Húrin

The Narn (as it is commonly called) is a long story of all that happened to Húrin and his children Túrin Turambar and Nienor Níniel, after Húrin was cursed by Morgoth.

The story elaborates on what is told of these characters in the published the Silmarillion, starting with the childhood of Túrin, continuing through the death of his father in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, and Túrin's exile in Doriath, to Túrin's time in Nargothrond and ending with his suicide after having slain Glaurung.

The story has some inconsistencies when compared with the Silmarillion, and at points there are gaps and multiple versions: this is because Tolkien never really finished the story during his lifetime, and his son Christopher Tolkien had to choose from all the work to create a consistent narrative for the Silmarillion.

The story of the Narn continues in the Later Narn, which is also published in the Unfinished Tales, and in the Wanderings of Húrin, a text which was not known to CRRT at the time of the editing of the Silmarillion, but which continues the Narn past Túrin's death and ends with Húrin's eventual release and the bad deeds which come from that. This story was finally published in The War of the Jewels, a part of the History of Middle-earth series.

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