Awesome deaths!!!

[Numenorean]

(I'm sure you noticed that I'm delighting in the deathes of good guys mostly, but I assure you that's just a coinsidence.)

Sure it is Eli
But yeah there are some seriously well deserved (and otherwise) deaths in Middle Earth. I do not find death itself (even Broddas) awesome at all, just the way JRRT describes such incidents within the broader context of his Legends. As such the sheer dramatic and literary impact of Broddas overdue comeuppance at the fell hands of the Blacksword, is something:

'Not first will I die here!' he cried. And seized Brodda, and with the strength of his great anguish and wrath he lifted him on high and shook him, as if he were a dog. 'Morwen of the thrall-folk, did you say? You dastards, thief, slave of slaves!' Thereupon he flung Brodda head foremost across his own table, full in the face of an Easterling that rose to assail Túrin.
In that fall Brodda's neck was broken; and Túrin leapt after his cast and slew three more...

Kuru

But seriously, you have to admire the way that Ecthelion went out.

Definately.