SIGNED Leather Ltd Ed Children of Hurin by Tolkien Lee Start Price GBP 449.99 Current Price GBP 449.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, October 04, 2008 End Time Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Location HERTFORDSHIRE See more about 'SIGNED Leather Ltd Ed Children of Hurin by Tolkien Lee' Description THE CHILDREN OF HURIN EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALAN LEE  LONDON, HARPER COLLINS, 2007 UK FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING LIMITED EDITION LEATHER EDITION IN CLAMSHELL BOX ONE OF ONLY 500 SUCH NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED DIRECT TO THE LIMITATION PAGE BY C R R TOLKIEN AND ALAN LEE THE ULTIMATE COLLECTORS EDITION   Hard Cover in fine unread condition.  Synopsis 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 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. The book is new and unread. The pages are tightly bound and clean .  Post and packing will be £7.95 and you can pay by personal cheque or using Paypal.   All books are bubbewrapped and sent securely in a box, I never use jiffy bags" Thanks very much for looking at my auction and good luck. Please see my other auctions for other modern collectables like Eragon and Philip Pullman. Overseas bidders please note that I will only accept Paypal and shipping will be more. Airmail to the States will be £15.00 Pay instantly with your debit or credit card through PayPal. Place a Bid!