Hurin and despair

[The Saucepan Man]

But it's immaterial anyway. We are talking about Middle Earth here not the real world.

And about your points about torture, as Morwen already said this is not the primary world that we are discussing, and Hurin is not your ordinary man.

Absolutely. In a world of Dark Lords, Dragons and curses, there is no reason why resistance to torture should not be possible. This is a heroic Age, after all, and Hurin is one of the most heroic of them all. He wasn't known as the Steadfast for nothing.

It seems to me, in any event, that he did suffer unimaginable torture over a great period of time. For some 30 years, he was made to watch his family systematically being destroyed. As I said earlier, I can (as a husband and father) think of nothing worse to have to endure. And yet Hurin never cracked.