Húrin, lord of the house of Hador of the land of Dor-Lómin leaves for war to join his men to the armies of the kings of the elves against Morgoth's army of orcs. At home leaves his pregnant wife and his son Turin. The great battle ends in disaster and the people of Dor-Lómin is enslaved by men allies of Morgoth, as the wife of Húrin sent to Turin to the kingdom Doriath kept hoping that there is care and exhaust the black fate of his family.
This is the third version I read the same story: the first aperece in a highly summarized in a chapter of The Silmarillion and the second was published in "Unfinished Tales." Christopher Tolkien continues rummaging through manuscripts left his father and finding excuses to further exploit the commercial reef. I'm sure that if the lifting of JRR Tolkien's grave is angry much, if not publish this material is alive because he thought it was not yet sophisticated enough to go out into the open.
The story that the book is an evolved version of the Middle Earth fanatics have read in The Silmarillion.
For those readers who have enjoyed The Lord of the Rings, this story can serve as an introduction to hard Silmarillion (me the first two times I read it walked quite lost with so many names and stories told at great speed interlaced). But anyone to expect a story like The Hobbit, these stories of the First Age are a mixture of the mythical Greek tragedy with nuances that sometimes remind me of the Bible itself.
This book does not qualify for two reasons: to Tolkien it is impossible to be impartial, on the other side is not entirely the work of JRR Tolkien but rather a Frankenstein monster created by his son Christopher from scraps.
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