The Children of Húrin/YMMV

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  • Complete Monster: Morgoth and Glaurung.
  • Crowning Moment of Awesome: Several, but Hurin standing alone against the armies of Morgoth and killing seventy trolls before being finally brought down by sheer weight of numbers has to take the cake
  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Turin giving his birthday present to his old house-servant Sador.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Turin embodies this trope.
  • Obvious Beta: And Tropes Are Not Bad, but it was plain Tolkien intended to do more work on it, both in adding to descriptions and in filling in certain (sometimes fairly long) gaps between scenes. May also qualify as What Could Have Been, as one of the "longest tales of the Elder Days" could likely have been even longer if it had been brought to its final completion.
  • Squick: Glaurung, with his dying breath, chides Turin for the many atrocities he committed; he notes, however, that the greatest atrocity is the one that is sleeping in his sister's womb.
  • Tear Jerker: Pretty much the whole thing, but Beleg's death, and Nienor's and then Turin's suicides probably beat all else out.
    • Don't forget when Hurin and Morwen are speaking of what will happen in the coming days of war and then:

"That night Turin half-woke, and it seemed to him that his father and mother stood beside
his bed, and looked down on him in the light of the candles that they held; but he could
not see their faces."

      • Lalaith's death from sickness.
  • The Woobie: Pretty much everybody, but Turin, Nienor, and Hurin himself qualify most.
    • Mim the Petty-Dwarf as well. His hatred and betrayal were completely justified after Androg killed his son.
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