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Originally Posted by Inziladun
It was Eärendil who slew Ancalagon, not Túrin. The latter killed Glaurung.
At any rate, I don't see Túrin's act, heroic as it was, as "holiness". He did it because Glauring was coming for him, and would have killed all of Brethil in the process.
Bard the Bowman killed a dragon, and managed to do so without committing murder on a lame man afterwards. Does he get to be a Vala too?
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In Andreth's prophecy Turin comes back to kill Ancalagon.
Turin and his family are the only people to ever be cursed by Morgoth personally. In some ways Morgoth really was the master of Arda. Since everything in Arda to a greater or lesser extent was influenced by his will.
In other matters also it seemed that fortune was unfriendly to him, so that often what he designed went awry, and what he desired he did not gain:-The Children of Hurin
Now that was in Doriath protected by Melian's girdle.
Even so with all that he had against him nobody except Luthien, Beren and Earendil accomplished more in the war against Morgoth.
Turin had his faults and just like Morwen perhaps pride was his greatest flaw, but to live with Morgoth's foot on your neck since childhood is no easy task.