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The hiding in Gondolin thing wouldn't be my modus operandi of choice, but that's not why Turgon is my least favourite elf ever. As for the Aredhel/Eol thing, even that doesn't bother me so much, I'll even concede that Turgon was more decent than Thingol would have been.
No, with me it's the Hurin thing, all the way. It wasn't just the miserable cold-heartedness of not letting Thalion into Gondolin, it was the way Turgon reacted to the Dor-lomin sacrifice. Not "oh my goodness, you've all got wives and children waiting for you at home, how can I let you do this." Not, "oh, very well, if you absolutely insist, but I and all my kin will be beholden to you and yours til the world changes".
Instead, Turgon just accepted, nay, expected, that men would act as his cannon-fodder.
You'd never have caught Finrod Felagund behaving like that.
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Out went the candle, and we were left darkling
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