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Strictly speaking we don't know that Hurin committed suicide. It's presented as a rumor. The rumor is sparked because we don't know what happened to him.
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Duuude, whatever. This is fiction, right? Tolkien, the writer of said fiction, implied that Hurin committed suicide, but left the readers hanging, to preserve the authentic "feel" of the re-telling of a myth. At the same time, we can sense that Hurin's anger and despair got the best of him in the end, and considering that his kids had done themselves in...Basically, I think Hurin was very cool, but I think Morgoth got what he wanted from him in the end, and I just somehow don't feel that Tolkien wanted us to believe that Hurin was the greatest. I rather felt sorry for Hurin by the time his tale was done, trolls or no trolls.