narn i chn hrin

The Narn i Chn Hrin or Tale of the Children of Hrin is a part of the Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien. The Narn (as it is commonly called) is a long story of all that happened to Hrin and his children Trin Turambar and Nienor Nniel, after Hrin was cursed by Morgoth. The story elaborates on what is told of these characters in the published the Silmarillion, starting with the childhood of Trin, continuing through the captivity of his father in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, and Trin's exile in Doriath, to Trin's time in Nargothrond and ending with his suicide after having slain Glaurung. The story has some inconsistencies when compared with the Silmarillion, and at points there are gaps and multiple versions: this is because Tolkien never really finished the story during his lifetime, and his son Christopher Tolkien had to choose from all the work to create a consistent narrative for the Silmarillion. The story of the Narn continues in the Later Narn, which is also published in the Unfinished Tales, and in the Wanderings of Hrin, a text which was found to be too different in style from rest of the Silmarillion, but which continues the Narn past Trin's death and ends with Hrin's eventual release and the bad deeds which come from that. This story was finally published in The War of the Jewels, a part of the History of Middle-earth series.

Note that the title of the Narn is given as Narn i Hn Hrin in the published Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. This was an editorial decision by Christopher Tolkien which he later regretted, done only to prevent people from pronouncing Chn like English "Chin".

Narn I Chn Hrin

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