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Of course, Turin is a pretty good example of a flawed character. Someone so driven by pride (ofermod if you will - at least Tolkien's conception of ofermod), who kills innocent people - including his best friend, marries & impregnates his sister & probably provokes a massacre of his own people - taken at face value we would have to class him among the 'bad guys' - yet Tolkien makes him a tragic figure with whom the reader sympathises. Turin is classed among the good guys, but Gollum, an equally tragic victim of circumstances, tends to be classed among the 'bad guys'.
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