The Children of Hurin

양장본 Hardcover

J. R. R. Tolkien 저자(글)

Houghton Mifflin · 2007년 04월 17일

책 소개

CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN is the third son of J.R.R. Tolkien. Appointed by Tolkien to be his literary executor, he has devoted himself to the editing and publication of unpublished writings, notably The Silmarillion , Unfinished Tales , and The History of Middle-earth .
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit , The Lord of the Rings , and The Silmarillion . His books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.
"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
The first complete book by Tolkien in three decades, this book reunites fans of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, Eagles and Orcs. This stirring narrative will return fans to the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien.

작가정보

저자(글) J. R. R. Tolkien

남아프리카공화국 출신의 영미작가로, 20세기 영미 문학의 거장, 판타지 문학의 아버지다. 저명한 문헌학자이자 언어학자이기도 하다. 어려서부터 언어학과 고전문학에 뛰어난 재능을 보였고, 옥스퍼드대학교 교수로 재직하며 C.S. 루이스 등과 깊은 우정을 나누었다. 하지만 학문적인 성과보다는 오히려 판타지 문학의 기본 바탕을 마련한 '미들랜드'의 창조자로서 전 세계 문학 애호가들의 사랑과 숭배의 대상이 되고 있다. 저작들은 전 세계 30여 개가 넘는 언어로 번역되었다. 세계에서 가장 많이 판매된 책 중 하나인 『호빗』과 『반지의 제왕』의 작가로 유명하며, 가운데땅의 신화에 근거한 방대한 세계관으로 20세기 이후 현대 환상문학과 게임, 미디어 등에 막대한 영향을 미치고 있다. 또한 자신이 창조한 세계 속에서 사용된 다양한 언어들까지 새롭게 창조하는 등, 언어학과 영문학자로서의 업적도 높이 평가받고 있다. 1973년 사망 후 아들 크리스토퍼 톨킨에 의해 『실마릴리온』, 『끝나지 않은 이야기』, 『가운데땅의 역사』, 『후린의 아이들』, 『베렌과 루시엔』, 『곤돌린의 몰락』 등이 출간되었다.

목차

• Preface 7(6)
  Introduction 13(15)
  Note on Pronunciation 28(3)
  NARN I CHIN HURIN 31(230)
  The Tale of the Children of Hurin
  The Childhood of Turin 33(19)
  The Battle of Unnumbered Tears 52(9)
  The Words of Hurin and Morgoth 61(5)
  The Departure of Turin 66(14)
  Turin in Doriath 80(18)
  Turin among the Outlaws 98(23)
  Of Mim the Dwarf 121(20)
  The Land of Bow and Helm 141(10)
  The Death of Beleg 151(8)
  Turin in Nargothrond 159(12)
  The Fall of Nargothrond 171(11)
  The Return of Turin to Dor-lomin 182(10)
  The Coming of Turin into Brethil 192(6)
  The Journey of Morwen and Nienor to Nargothrond 198(15)
  Nienor in Brethil 213(8)
  The Coming of Glaurung 221(13)
  The Death of Glaurung 234(14)
  The Death of Turin 248(13)
  GENEALOGIES 261(6)
  The House of Hador & the People of Haleth
  The House of Beor
  The princes of the Noldor
  APPENDIX 267(26)
  The Evolution of the Great Tales 269(14)
  The Composition of the Text 283(10)
  List of Names 293(22)
  Note on the map 315

기본정보

ISBN	9780618894642 ( 0618894640 )
발행(출시)일자	2007년 04월 17일
쪽수	313쪽
크기	148 * 216 * 27 mm / 499 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어