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A has no title. In B as typed the title was The Golden Dragon, but this
was emended to Turin Son of Hurin O' Glorund the Dragon. The
second version of the poem was first titled Turin, but this was changed to
The Children of Hurin, and I adopt this, the title by which my father
referred to the poem in the 1926 'Sketch', as the general title of the
work.
The poem in the first version is divided into a short prologue (Hurin
and Morgoth) without sub-title and three long sections, of which the first
two ('Turin's Fostering' and 'Beleg') were only introduced later into
the typescript; the third ('Failivrin') is marked both in A and in B as
typed.
The detail of the typescript is largely preserved in the present text, but
I have made the capitalisation rather more consistent, added in occasional
accents, and increased the number of breaks in the text. The space
between the half-lines is marked in the second part of the A-text and
begins at line 543 in B.
I have avoided the use of numbered notes to the text, and all annotation
is related to the line-numbers of the poem. This annotation (very largely
concerned with variations of names, and comparisons with names in the
Lost Tales) is.found at the end of each of the three major parts, followed
by a commentary on the matter of that part.
Throughout, the Tale refers to the Tale of Turambar and the Foaloke
(II. 69 ff.); Narn refers to the Narn i Hin Hurin, in Unfinished Tales
pp. 57 ff.




TURIN SON OF HURIN
&
GLORUND THE DRAGON.
Lo! the golden dragon of the God of Hell,
the gloom of the woods of the world now gone,
the woes of Men, and weeping of Elves
fading faintly down forest pathways,
is now to tell, and the name most tearful
of Niniel the sorrowful, and the name most sad
of Thalion's son Turin o'erthrown by fate.
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Lo! Hurin Thalion in the hosts of war
was whelmed, what time the white-clad armies
of Elfinesse were all to ruin
by the dread hate driven of Delu-Morgoth.
That field is yet by the folk named
Ninin Unothradin, Unnumbered Tears.
There the children of Men, chieftain and warrior,
fled and fought not, but the folk of the Elves
they betrayed with treason, save that true man only,
Thalion Erithamrod and his thanes like gods.
There in host on host the hill-fiend Orcs