There are stories of Middle-earth that speak of ages long before The Lord of the Rings. Such is the story of this book, which unfolds in the great land beyond the Grey Havens in the West, in regions once travelled by Treebeard, but which were later flooded by the Great Cataclysm that brought the First Age of the World to an end.
In those distant times Morgoth, the Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, in the Iron Hell in the North. And the tragedy of Túrin and his sister Nienor unfolds under the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war that Morgoth waged against the Elves.
Their short and passionate lives are shaped by the boundless hatred he bore them because they were the children of Húrin, the man who dared to defy him and mock him to his face. Thus he sends against them his most terrible servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a gigantic wingless dragon that breathes fire. The Dark Lord and the Dragon pursue their aims in an age of savagery and destruction, full of hideouts, pursuits, and desperate attempts at resistance. Ruthless and all-powerful, Glaurung determined the fate of Túrin and Nienor through deceitful and diabolical lies, thus fulfilling the curse of Morgoth.
