Curse of Túrin

[Arvegil145]

Turin's 'curse', as Gwindor pointed out 'with eyes of death' (to quote Huor, since I think it is applicable) didn't exist as such, nor was Turin's future set in stone. Turin's future was still malleable.


It was Turin's blindness to all these 'escape hatches' that sealed his doom.

And Morgoth never in his history spent so much time and effort just so he can destroy one family in particular.

That is why I think Tolkien imagined Turin coming back "from the Doom of Men" at the end of Time - not because Turin was the one who suffered the most (he didn't), but:

1) because Turin's character is humanity writ small - all of its best and worst characteristics

2) because no character in Tolkien's works (other than his father Hurin, and Nienor Turin's sister) was as personally screwed over by Morgoth

3) he was one of the greatest (if not the greatest) warriors of Men - who would you have as your champion against Morgoth himself if not Turin?

4) Turin's grave was still intact after all the continent-sinking disasters of the First Age



Turin and his black blade ("Iron of Death") will come back to haunt the most singular example of sadistic, idiotic pettiness in the world's history (I hope!)...

Even if those stories originated from the very fallible mouths of Men - this is the end that I prefer, and that, I think, those same "fallible Men" were more correct on Arda's future than even the Valar.



But then again, this is practically fan-fiction.