Most Tragic Figure

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Originally Posted by mormegil

If we are looking for tragic women, Morwen would definately be near the top of the list. Lost her husband, young daughter, older daughter, and her son could do not right. Hurin's whole family could be viewed as tragic.

And this after she has already had to flee her homeland of Dorthonion as a youth, leaving behind home, belongings, and close family: her father, her uncle, her great-uncle, in the war that resulted in her grandfather's death.

It's odd, but although I intellectually knew that before, I only just made the emotional connection of the effects of the Dagor Bragollach to the life of Morwen. Curious... No wonder Rian, gentle soul that she was, died after the Nirnaeth. They had seen a lot of pain already...