title: Tolkien: The Children of Hurin Diary 2008
author: Alan Lee
description: <DIV><P>Alan Lee is the illustrator of the highly-successful centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings and diamond edition of The Hobbit. He worked as conceptual designer and set Decorator on Peter Jackson&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and he received the 2004 Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work on The Return of the King.</P></DIV>
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  **NARN I CHÎN HÚRIN**
  
  
  _The Tale of the Children of Húrin_
  
  
  
  
  
  **J.R.R. TOLKIEN**
  
  
  
  
  
  Editado por: Christopher Tolkien
  
  
  
  
  
  Ilustrado por: Alan Lee
  
  
  
  
  
  Digitalizado por: Anónimo
  
  
  
  
  
  Reeditado en formato digital por Elendil Aldarion exclusivamente para
  
  
  **PREFACE**
  
  
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  It is undeniable that there are a very great many readers of _The Lord of the
  Rings_ for whom the legends of the Elder Days (as previously published in
  varying forms in _The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales,_ and _The History of
  Middle-earth)_ are altogether unknown, unless by their repute as strange and
  inaccessible in mode and manner. For this reason it has seemed to me for a
  long time that there was a good case for presenting my father's long version
  of the legend of the Children of Húrin as an independent work, between its own
  covers, with a minimum of editorial presence, and above all in continuous
  narrative without gaps or interruptions, if 