In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Beleg is a major character who appears in numerous books, tales and poems about the First Age of Middle-earth such as The Silmarillion, The Lays of Beleriand and the Children of Húrin.
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After the catastrophe of the Fifth Battle, the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, the boy Túrin is sent to Doriath for protection from Morgoth's special enmity for the House of Húrin.
His latest translations include The Children of Húrin and The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (as Os Filhos de Húrin and A Lenda de Sigurd e Gudrún respectively).