The Children of Hurin

The book I read is titled The Children of Húrin. It is an early section of the middle earth series written by J.R.R. Tolkien. The book was published in 2007 by Houghton Miflfin. Tolkien had began to write the book in the mid 1910s but never finished it, however, his son, Christopher Tolkien used notes made by tolkien to finish the book. I chose this book since I have read other books by Tolkien and wanted to read more about the years before The Hobbit.

The story begins with Húrin as the name suggests. Húrin was a human that lived in a in a town called Dor-lomin with his brother Huor, while in a company of scouts orcs attacked the company. The brothers were the only ones that lived and became lost and would have died if not for the eagles that picked them up and delivered them to Gondolin. Although the elves did not allow humans in in the secret city of Gondolin they found favour with the king and dwelt as his guests for almost a year. Húrin begged to go back to his family and the brothers were allowed to go back to Dor-lomin on the backs of the eagles. Húrin married an elf named Mo...