Oh, Sharkey, how deft of you to sneak up with a HoMe quotation, when you know that kids like myself are all too busy wigging out over term-papers to rummage through the more obscure stuff. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
Definitely, if you divorce that particular image of Hurin from what supposedly happened to him later, his greatness is kinda hard to deny.
Perhaps, what Tolkien meant was that as Hurin faced Morgoth, his soul reached the highest level of might known to man. What happened afterwards could very well be of no consequence. If that's enough to call him the greatest, and it very well could be, then I don't think I could argue with that.
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