`` for both of us , '' he vowed , and then bent his head to kiss her as his hands pushed the robe off her shoulders. < br/ > appendix ( 1 ) the evolution of the great tales these interrelated but independent stories had from far back stood out from the long and complex history of valar , elves and men in valinor and the great lands ; and in the years that followed his abandonment of the lost tales before they were completed my father turned away from prose composition and began work on a long poem with the title turin son of hurin and glorund the dragon , later changed in a revised version to the children of hurin .