I'd have to say that Morgoth's curse is the weakest of all.
What's she talking about? Morgoth destroyed all of Hurin's children quite successfully.
It did. Nienor and Turin both came to tragic ends, and through Morgoth. But, the ultimate cause for the worst of the curse's effects came through direct intervention from Morgoth via Glaurung. I don't see the curse working alone here, but rather the curse + Morgoth plotting to personally bring about the most crucial steps in the process that led to their downfall.
For example, let's say that Jack and Jill are feuding neighbors. Jill puts a curse on Jack for some reason (I don't want to give Jill any special powers for the purpose of this discussion). Suddenly, things start to go badly for Jack. His car doesn't start, his formerly lush green lawn dies and his dog runs away. He finally falls behind on his mortgage, loses his job and house and winds up homeless. Jill's curse seems effective, yes? But suppose the reason all of these horrible things happened to poor Jack was that Jill snuck over to his house at night, poisoned the lawn, loosened the belts in his car and opened the doggie gate. And what's more, let's say she has very good friends at both Jack’s place of employment, where the friend undermined Jack’s job performance, and at his bank where the receipt of Jack's house payments was delayed and his late notices transferred to the trash bin. Is this still a curse working, or is it Jill's malevolent attention?
In the same way, I don't see Morgoth's curse working as well as it did without Glaurung appearing to be the direct machinery involved in Turin abandoning Finduilas and in Nienor's memory loss. If Morgoth sent him to accomplish these tasks, I don't want to assign them to the independent workings of a curse. And it does appear that Morgoth was directing Glaurung's actions:
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...Glaurung laughed once more, for he had accomplished the errand of his Master.
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True, Turin would still have had bad luck and killed off his allies through mischance, which I see as the curse itself at work, but that would have led only to Turin's being an unhappy man with both heroism and tragic, accidental misdeeds in his background - not to his and Nienor's destruction.
The Valar's curse on the Noldor, on the other hand, worked against them without Mandos and company appearing in Middle-earth to direct the course of events. If anything, various Valar (cough...Ulmo...cough) tried to
aid the Noldor.