Best MORTAL fighter - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Carrûn · 11-27-2004, 07:13 PM

My vote has to go to Hurin, if for no other reason than in "Of the Ruin of Doriath" Tolkien writes "But it is said that Hurin would not live thereafter, being bereft of all purpose and desire, and cast himself at last into the western sea; and so ended the mightiest of the warriors of mortal Men."

I guess you could take that to mean several different things, but I'll use it in its literal form.

rutslegolas · 11-27-2004, 11:37 PM

Well Hurin will be always ranked first in my book and then Aragorn , Isildur ,Elendil.

But what about Anarion ,is there anything mentioned in the books anywhere anout his fighting skills.But I think they were right up there with Isildur .

Lachwen · 11-27-2004, 11:50 PM

Jeez, talk about the underappreciated younger brother! What about Huor? Sure, he may not have killed seventy Trolls like his big brother, but he was still no pansy! And, from what I gather of him from the Silmarillion, I think that, had that venomed arrow missed its mark, Huor would have stood beside Húrin until the very end and added some of his own to the count of slain Trolls.

11-27-2004, 07:13 PM	#1
Carrûn Wight Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Behind you, counting to 3 Posts: 234	My vote has to go to Hurin, if for no other reason than in "Of the Ruin of Doriath" Tolkien writes "But it is said that Hurin would not live thereafter, being bereft of all purpose and desire, and cast himself at last into the western sea; and so ended the mightiest of the warriors of mortal Men." I guess you could take that to mean several different things, but I'll use it in its literal form. __________________ "Dic, hospes, Spartae, nos te hic vidisse iacentes dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur."

11-27-2004, 11:37 PM	#2
rutslegolas Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In Elven Lands of India Posts: 533	Well Hurin will be always ranked first in my book and then Aragorn , Isildur ,Elendil. But what about Anarion ,is there anything mentioned in the books anywhere anout his fighting skills.But I think they were right up there with Isildur . __________________ If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with the bull - The Phantom.

11-27-2004, 11:50 PM	#3
Lachwen Wight Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Greenwood the Great. Posts: 115	Jeez, talk about the underappreciated younger brother! What about Huor? Sure, he may not have killed seventy Trolls like his big brother, but he was still no pansy! And, from what I gather of him from the Silmarillion, I think that, had that venomed arrow missed its mark, Huor would have stood beside Húrin until the very end and added some of his own to the count of slain Trolls. __________________ "'...Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.'"