The Children of Hurin has illustrations by Alan Lee, who also worked on the very successful film series and the artist will be helping at the London book launch.
Christopher Tolkien had already worked on another of his father's unfinished books, The Silmarillion, in 1977, which explains the mythology of Middle-Earth.
Christopher Tolkien had to work from the unfinished manuscripts of his father JRR Tolkien, and concerning The Children of Hurin he commented: "After a long study of the manuscripts, I tried to build a coherent narrative without editorial invention,"
