Hurin and despair

[Guinevere]

Yes, this is an issue with which I struggled while reading this fascinating thread. Being fully aware of the central theme of Men being masters of their fate, I tried in vain to see some way in which the tale of the children of Hurin might be seen as consistent with this. But whichever way I look at it, I see the curse of Morgoth as inevitably, and ultimately, robbing Hurin's family of the free will which should rightly have been theirs.

Perhaps the Narn I Hin Hurin is the excpetion that proves the rule.

Ah, at last someone who seems to have similar questions as I do!(Otherwise what I was asking was just ignored.) Almost all of those things that Tolkien wrote (in "letters") are relating to the LotR.
I too, find Húrin's fate oddly at variance with the rest of his philosphy. Of course, I haven't read the HoME. Perhaps there can be found a comment on the Narn somwhere in there? ?
But I must admit that in real life it seems somtimes like that. Totally hopeless and Evil is allowed to have it's way and no sign of God at all. Perhaps Tolkien wrote it in just such a mood? After all he wrote the first version in WW I. But the "Narn i hin Hurin" (as in UT) he wrote much later, after The LotR. What were his thoughts about it then?

No, I cannot imagine that JRRT ever considered such a fate for him. On his death, his fea would no doubt have gone the (unknown) way of all Men, but he was rightly honoured as one of the greatest among them.

That is my opinion as well! At least "beyond the circles of this world" there must be justice.