Unfinished Tales - Part One - II - Narn I Hín Húrin

[Galadriel55]

There is one note that caught my attention more than the others:

Note 7:

A marginal note in the text says here: "Always he sught in all faces of women the face of Lalaith."

This might be the reason for his friendship with Nellas, but also: compare:

"Turin, have you lived always with your heart and half your mind far away?"

~Beleg

"That was long ago, or so my childhood now seems, and a mist is over it - save only the memmory of my father's house in Dor-lomin."

~Turin

"I had a sister, Lalaith, or so I named her; and of her you put me in mind. But Lalaith was a child, a yellow flower in the green grass of spring; and had she lived she would now, maybe, have become dimmed with grief. But you are queenly, and as a golden tree; I would I had a sister so fair."

~Turin to Finduilas in COH


And this might also be one of the reasons that Turin marries Niniel (he feels odd around her because she's also his sister, but I wouldn't exclude the possibility of her being similar to Lalaith in some way either).

Originally Posted by Boro

It's probably one of the most painful (or maybe chilling?) thought Morgoth says to Hurin. We've been trying to answer what happens to us after death forever. And the thought of the 'Nothing' that awaits is certainly different, and terrifying. In some ways, perhapse more terrifying than the thought of eternal damnation. Granted, that thought isn't pleasant either, but it's certainly different from 'Nothing.'

I think that the most chilling part is the capital letter in "Nothing". Not that Hurin would hear the diffrence, but it has its effect on the reader. If it was just "nothing" - that's something more familiar (how many times have you said that you're doing nothing? - as an example). It's just a complete negative. But Nothing is now a thing, an actual something.... if that makes any sense.