best book the children of hrin pre lord of the rings uploaded by j r r tolkien the children of hurin takes the reader back to a time long before the lord of the rings in an area of middle earth that was to be drowned before hobbits appeared and when the great enemy was still the fallen vala morgoth and sauron was only. The children of hurin takes the reader back to a time long before the lord of the rings in an area of middle earth that was to be drowned before hobbits appeared and when the great enemy was still the fallen vala morgoth and sauron was only morgoths lieutenant this heroic romance is the tale of the man hurin who dared to defy morgoth . ebook the children of hrin pre lord of the rings uploaded by janet dailey long before the one ring was forged in the fires of mount doom one man hurin dared to defy morgoth the first and greatest of the dark lords to plague middle earth thus did he and his children turin and nienor earn the enmity of a merciless foe that would shape. The children of hurin is the first of the great tales begun by jrr tolkien in 1918 and published in 2007 isbn 0 618 89464 0 once more than thirty years worth of his notes were compiled and edited by his son christopher it is the expanded account of the story of the wanderings and deeds of turin turambar son of hurin and his sister