内容摘要 There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings. The story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. In that remote time, Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Túrin and his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves. Their brief and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Húrin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. Against them he sent his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the Dark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Túrin and Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled. 早在《指环王》之前,就有关于中土世界的传说。这本书讲述的故事发生在西方灰港之外的一个伟大国家:树胡子曾经走过的地方,但在结束世界di一个时代的大灾难中被淹没了。 在那个遥远的年代,di一任黑暗魔王魔苟斯居住在北方昂班的巨大要塞——铁地狱;Túrin和他的妹妹Nienor的悲剧在昂班的恐惧和魔苟斯对精灵的土地和秘密城市发动的战争的阴影下展开。他们短暂而充满激情的一生被魔苟斯作为Húrin的孩子带给他们的仇恨所支配,Húrin是一个敢于当面反抗和蔑视他的人。他派了他强大的仆人格劳隆来对付他们,格劳隆是一个强大的灵魂,化身为一条巨大的无翼火龙。 这个故事讲述了残酷的征服和逃跑,森林中的藏身之处和追捕,在希望越来越渺茫的情况下进行抵抗,黑魔王和恶龙以一种可怕的清晰的形式出现了。格劳隆以讽刺和嘲讽的口吻,用恶魔般的狡猾和狡诈的谎言操纵了Túrin和Nienor的命运,魔苟斯的诅咒实现了。
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