Now Túrin grew heavy-hearted, not knowing what new evil was afoot, and fearing that an ill fate had befallen Morwen and Niënor and for many days he sat silent, brooding on the downfall of the House of Hador and the Men of the North. He was ever loath to let any stray beyond the guarded borders, and in nothing had he shown greater good will to Húrin and his kin than in sending his people on the dangerous roads to Morwen in Dor-lómin. Thus there came a time when the messengers of Thingol did not return, and he would send no more.
Doubtless he knew much of the doings of Húrins people and kin, and had not molested them for a while, so that his design might be fulfilled but now in pursuit of this purpose he set a close watch on all the passes of the Shadowy Mountains, so that none might come out of Hithlum nor enter it, save at great peril, and the Orcs swarmed about the sources of Narog and Teiglin and the upper waters of Sirion. The power of Morgoth had grown yearly, and all Hithlum was now under his shadow. Please note also that his name is spelt Tolkien (there is no “Tolkein”).In the year that Túrin was seventeen years old, his grief was renewed for all tidings from his home ceased at that time. In 1997 he came top of three British polls, organised respectively by Channel 4 / Waterstone’s, the Folio Society, and SFX, the UK’s leading science fiction media magazine, amongst discerning readers asked to vote for the greatest book of the 20th century. In the 1960s he was taken up by many members of the nascent “counter-culture” largely because of his concern with environmental issues. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English.
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