胡林的子女The Children of Húrin

基本信息

Format: Paperback| 320 pages

Dimensions: 107x 175x 21mm| 176g

Publication date: 25 May 2010

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Imprint: Random House Inc

ISBN: 9780345518842

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

胡林的子女的传奇，是J.R.R.托尔金教授创造的瑰丽世界——中洲里相当重要的故事之一。与“贝伦与露西恩”“刚多林的陷落”并称中洲远古时代的三大传说；既是《魔戒》那宏大背景的组成部分，更是《精灵宝钻》必不可少的基石。悲剧英雄图林的经历，有世界各地神话的遗绪，又有赫克托耳、科里奥兰纳斯等辈的悲怆。堕落的维拉魔苟斯擒获人类族长胡林，对其威逼利诱软硬兼施，强迫其屈服。胡林的凛然让魔苟斯心生毒计，转而诅咒胡林的儿女——图林和涅诺尔兄妹，并强迫胡林眼见两人遭遇种种不幸……

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, this paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Húrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves, dragons, Dwarves and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien.

It is a legendary time long before The Lord of the Rings, and Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and within the shadow of the fear of Angband, and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves, the fates of Túrin and his sister Niënor will be tragically entwined.

Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Húrin, the man who dared to defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire, in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth, and destroy the children of Húrin.

Begun by J.R.R. Tolkien at the end of the First World War, The Children of Húrin 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.

作者简介

J.R.R. 托尔金（J.R.R. Tolkien）

英国文豪，天才的语言学家，生于1892年1月3日，1925年开始担任牛津大学教授。他创作了一系列脍炙人口的中洲世界史诗，影响较为深远的是《霍比特人》和《魔戒》。这两部巨作，被誉为当代奇幻作品的鼻祖。1972年3月28日，托尔金获英国女王伊丽莎白二世颁发的大英帝国指挥官勋章。

托尔金于1973年9月2日在牛津逝世。托尔金身后，其作品声名未减，至今已畅销2.5亿余册，《魔戒》在英国Waterstones书店和第四频道合办的票选活动中被选为20世纪之书，被亚马逊网络书店票选为两千年以来极为重要的书籍。

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.