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To have Hurin die in mistaken pride and despair is then, according to Tolkien's beliefs, condemning him to damnation in the afterlife.
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Even if Tolkien intended Hurin's despair to be some kind of moral flaw, I don't think he would have been condemned. The afterlife in Tolkien's legendarium is not quite like that in Catholicism - there is no hell (as far as anyone knows); all humans simply "seek elsewhither" and leave the world.