After the completion of "The Lord of the Rings", "The Children of Hurin" is the first narrative novel about Middle-earth to be released in a new format. Turin's life and death are directly depicted in a way that penetrates the back of the paper, which is rarely seen among the characters of various ethnic groups in Middle-earth. For this reason, after studying the manuscript for many years, I tried to construct the text of this book and provide a coherent story from beginning to end without introducing any plot that would be unfaithful to the original conception.
——Christopher Tolkien
The legend of Hurin's children is a very important story in Middle-earth, the magnificent world created by Professor J. R. R. Tolkien. Together with "Beren and Lúthien" and "The Fall of Gondolin", they are called the three major legends of the ancient times of Middle-earth; they are not only an integral part of the grand background of "The Lord of the Rings", but also an indispensable cornerstone of "The Silmarillion". The experience of the tragic hero Turin has traces of myths from all over the world, as well as the pathos of Hector, Coriolanus and others. The fallen Valar Morgoth captured Hurin, the leader of the human race, and used threats and inducements to force him to submit. Hurin's awe-inspiring attitude made Morgoth hatch a poisonous plot, and he cursed Hulin's children, brother and sister Túrin and Nienor, and forced Hurin to witness all the misfortunes they encountered...
