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Turambar and the Foalókë is an epic story written by J. R. R. Tolkien (written circa 1919, published posthumously in The History of Middle-earth, Volume II, edited by Christopher Tolkien), which takes place in the fictional world of Middle-earth. It is one of the Lost Tales of Elfinesse told by the Elves of Tol Eressëa to Ælfwine or Eriol, who found the Straight Way to the True West in the Middle Ages. The story itself is narrated by one Eltas and is about the cursed and ill-fated Túrin Turambar, son of Húrin Thalion (here mentioned Úrin), and the "fire-dragon" (foalókë) Glaurung (also mentioned here as Glorung or Glomund or even Glorunt). Turambar and the Foalókë is an early version of what came to be The Lay of the Children of Húrin and then Narn i Chîn Húrin (found in the Unfinished Tales and also recently published independently entitled The Children of Húrin). It is also in a way one of the sources of the chapter entitled "Túrin Turambar" in The Silmarillion.
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