He was the eldest son of Galdor and Hareth and the older brother of Huor. Húrin Thalion ('the Steadfast', 'the Strong'), was the last Lord of Dor-lómin and one of the great heroes of Men during the First Age. But the fire in him burned steadily, and he had great endurance of will.' ― The Children of Húrin, The Childhood of Túrin but he was shorter in stature than other men of his kin in this he took after his mother's people, but in all else he was like Hador, his grandfather, strong in body and fiery of mood. For a list of other meanings, see Húrin (disambiguation).

The name Húrin refers to more than one character, item or concept. This article or section needs more/new/more-detailed sources to conform to a higher standard and to provide proof for claims made. In this book I have endeavored to construct, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention.' Who told you, and who sent you?' - Gandalf But he could not bring it to a final and finished form. Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War and the years that followed but long afterward, when The Lord of the Rings was finished, he wrote it anew and greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive and character: it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. The earliest versions of this story by J.R.R. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Túrin and Niënor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled. 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.

Against them he sent his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. 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. 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 Niënor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves. There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and 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 that were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World.

The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien