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Old 03-29-2004, 10:43 AM   #1
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Of the Ruin of Doriath

Of the Ruin of Doriath

This chapter begins with what is really a sort of ending for the last chapter.

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So ended the tale of Túrin Turambar; but Morgoth did not sleep nor rest from evil, and his dealings with the house of Hador were not yet ended. Against them his malice was unsated, though Húrin was under his eye, and Morwen wandered distraught in the wild.
(A slight aside, we know what Húrin’s been up to but what had been Morwen been doing, wandering yes, but how was she surviving? Hunting? Begging? Just a little something it would have been interesting to know.)

Now clearly, Húrin wasn’t a happy camper, because he saw all that Morgoth had done to his family, but this was seen in the way Morgoth wanted him to see it, and Morgoth tried to throw a bad light on Thingol and Melian’s part in the whole thing. But he decided it was time to let Húrin go and see of what use he could be put. He (very badly apparently) feigned mercy. Húrin was no idiot, and clearly saw through Morgoth’s act, but thus being no idiot, also took his freedom.
This was a year after Túrin’s death, and a full 28 years since the fateful day of the Nirnaeth when Húrin was captured.
He was old, and looked it, but stood tall and proud, walked with a staff and carried a sword. In Hithlum the Easterlings left him alone, as did the remainders of his own people (because they thought him in league with Angband.) Húrin was an extremely bitter man by now, but wandered somewhat aimlessly until he saw the Crissaegrim, and remembered Turgon. So he went to what was (unbeknownst to him) the remainder of the old way of escape, now blocked, and he could not see the eagles. So he called out, but Turgon feared Húrin’s allegiance as well. Later he sent eagles to find him, but he was gone. This also was how Morgoth discovered the general area of Gondolin.

One night while sleeping he heard Morwen calling to him and it seemed as if her voice was coming from Brethil, so he went there, and found her on the night of her death.

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Grey she was and old, but suddenly her eyes looked into his, and he knew her; for though they were wild and full of fear, that light still gleamed in them that long ago had earned her the name Eledhwen, proudest and most beautiful of mortal women in the days of old.
They said little to each other, and she passed at sunset holding his hand and the years seemed to fade from her. (what a sad and beautiful image, after 28 plus years, he arrived just in time to hold her hand as she died, at the grave of their son and daughter)
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“She was not conquered”
He buried her near the stone and wrote her name along with their children’s’.
It is interesting that a minstrel wrote a seemingly prophetic song, which stated that, this mound and stone would remain, and it was not submerged in Beleriand’s ruin, and became Tol Morwen.
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But Húrin does not lie there, for his doom drove him on, and the shadow still followed him.
Hurin found his way to Nargothrond, where Mim the petty dwarf sat in Glaurung’s hoard of Finrod’s treasure.
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“Who are you, who would hinder me from entering the house of Finrod Felagund?”
He killed Mim, and took only one treasure. Then he went to Doriath, where he mockingly presented to Thingol the Nauglam*r.
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Excerpt from Robert Foster’s “The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth"
Nauglam*r (Sindarin=dwarf necklace) Gold necklace made for Finrod by the dwarves of the Ered Luin (probably of Nogrod) in the 1st century FA (First Age), the most renowned of their works in that age. Set with many gems brought by Finrod from Valinor, the Nauglam*r sat lightly on the neck despite its great weight and gave grace and beauty to its wearer.
Thingol restrained his anger at his insult and Melian explained that Húrin’s family had been only treated well. At this point Húrin apologized and presented the Nauglam*r to Thingol (for real this time). And left Menegroth free of Morgoth’s lies, and so in great woe. Eventually, with nothing to live for, he cast himself into the western sea.
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and so ended the mightiest of the warriors of mortal men

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