WHY DOES EVERYONE DIE!!

Hello friends! Here we will share the best and worst reviews, reactions, and comments on the story of the Children of Húrin. Let's laugh at other people's tears.

[ourlightsinvain-deactivated2025]

[ehkesoyo-deactivated20181204]

The one where this guy is kidnapped by orcs and this elven captain goes to rescue him, but the human accidentally kills him with the black sword and then is taken with grief so he picks up the sword and starts hunting orcs and at some point his sister is made to forget shit by a dragon and they kinda fall in love until the dragon hits him with the plot twist and I think he then kills the dragon but everybody dies too

Me, describing the story of Túrin Turambar (via ehkesoyo)

[larksart-deactivated20180904]

my friend looked over my shoulder when I was reading the silm today and she just “oh are those 2 the ones you cry over? Bleggy and Tureen?”

bleGGY AND TUREEN

[klngfili]

MY BESTEST FRIEND IN THE ENTIRE WORLD KILLED ME.

Beleg Cúthalion (The Silmarillion/The Children Of Hurin)

[thegodawfulgatsby]

attempting to read Of Túrin Turambar

ok, so I’m still really broken up about the Nirnaeth Arnoiediad. but it’s ok. I am strong. I am brave. I can do this.

ok. here goes.

nah

[ladyrock18]

Chapter 21 : Of Turin Turambar.........

MORE LIKE “IF George.R.R MARTIN WROTE THE SILMARILLION”!!!!

SERIOUSLY! INCEST,DRAGONS,EVERYBODY DIES!!!!! How did the creator of nice little hobbits write something so tragic?????

[jazuthevulcanprincess]

Wow the tale of Túrin is the saddest and most disturbing thing ever shit how did he withstand all that

[cursedbook]

The title of the score “Thrice Welcome” from DOS sounds too much like “twice beloved” :’(

[psst-houston]

Now reading the Children of Húrin. The worst part is I aLREADY KNOW WHAT HAPPENS but this time I’m going to be ten times more emotionally invested in the characters

[legendariumladiesapril]

Legendarium Ladies April: An Appreciation Month for Tolkien's Female Characters

It is hard to miss the fact that the Children of Húrin is full of amazing female characters. Morwen and Niënor’s endurance before they make their way to Doriath and the resilience that keeps them going, Aerin’s quiet strength in the face of adversity, Melian’s wisdom and Nellas’ truthfulness, Finduilas’ love and loyalty, not to mention side characters like Lalaith, Rían and Glóredhel… even in this rather short story there are many, many possibilities to celebrate female characters.

Thoughts like that were what inspired this month. Fanworks let us explore the characters who exist and must exist - and that’s precisely the aim of this project - to have fun, explore, fill prompts, and celebrate ladies being ladies being awesome!

Fic, art, edits, cosplay, meta, gifsets, crafts, fanmixes, rec lists… this is by no means an exhaustive list, anything else you can think of also goes, regardless of skill level, genre, rating or length - you’re good to go as long as it’s female-centric. 

Have a look at our FAQ and get familiar with the ideas behind this, grab one of our banners and spread the word - happy creating! Prompts begin on April 2!

[cursedbook]

So I was playing this Sporcle "Middle-earth Couples" quiz and you had to name the other half given a name and I'm like, "Okay... so Aragorn... that's Arwen; this is easy...ooh, Varda, cool, some Silm stuff... Aredhel, that's Eol, except they weren't really the perfect other ha... WHAT. NIENOR NINIEL. No that doesn't count they were actually brother and sister and ARRRRGH I CAN'T NOOOOOO!!!" and the crack in my heart got a little bit deeper...

"that doesn’t really count they were siblings" 

actually that means it counts twice, anon

[serialdoubter-deactivated201410]

*Finishes reading The Children of Húrin for the first time since high school*

*weeps bitterly*

[beleggs]

dwimmerlaiks your tags on that beleg and turin edit thing are making me so sad like #this fucking book though #I mean for all that it’s basically emotional torture from start to finish #there is also just SO MUCH LOVE in it #everyone cares about each other so much #morwen and hurin and beleg and turin and turin and nienor #and everyone else #and they tell each other frequently #like the entire first pre-stabbing part is just beleg running around telling everyone how much he loves turin #it’s really heart warming #until it’s heart stopping #haha #sorry

im not crying youre crying

[elizadobikenobi]

so like i was reading the tale of the children of hurin as part of tolkien’s unfinished tales SPOILERS BELOW (also i probably got a load of this story wrong but I READ THE GOOD BITS WELL ENOUGH)

okay so basically right there’s this lord named hurin and basically he pisses off dragon satan, so he puts like a curse him on that all his kin will have terrible things happen to them. hurin dies and his wife is pregnant, so she tells their 8 year old son, turin, to go and live with the elves. so he’s like fine but I’m avenging him later and she’s like k whatevs so 

he goes and lives the the elves and then some stuff happens and he leaves and you know ‘secret lord in hiding’ problems (can i get a hell yeah aragorn?) and meanwhile, his mother has a girl, and names her Nienor.  so some other stuff happens and nienor and their mum wander around for like 10-15 years until Nienor runs into dragon satan at some stage and is like ‘lol like im scared of you loser’ so he does some dragon magic on her and she loses all her memory and forgets how to speak. total mind wipe. her mum finds her again and she can’t get nienor to talk, but her and her friends are like ‘whatever we don’t have time for this shit’ and they keep wandering around pretty much aimlessly until some orcs show up and Nienor like, flips. Full on can’t cope with all this stimuli. So she runs off into the woods, alone, and runs for three days all while taking off all her clothes (for some reason) until these woodland dudes (see: band of babes who i imagine all look like chris and liam hemsworth a little) are passing by and their leader, Turambar, finds her. and he’s like “woah hold up there’s a naked lady here” and instead of being jerks about it they get her clothed and feed her and stuff.

so like, Nienor still can’t talk or communicate beyond sign language and she doesn’t remember anything, like, not even her name, so it’s a lot like Little Mermaid: Middle Earth Edition. they take her back to their woodland town, and they give her a new name and teach her how to talk and stuff again, but like no one knows she’s the daughter of Hurin

Nienor still has mad nightmares from dragon satan’s dragon magic, but like, the only time she ever seems to sleep okay is when Turambar is around, and eventually as she learns to talk she winds up being the most fair maiden in the town and everyone loves her, but she’s all like ‘nope gotta have Turambar in the room if i’m gonna sleep tonight’ and it’s cute as heck

so like the lord of the town, brandir is also like ‘woah man this mystery babe is like the one babe to rule them all’ and is made in love with her, and Nienor kind of knows but she’s like ‘LOL NOPE SORRY DUDE you’re cool and all and we’re buddies but have you seen Turambar?’

and then one day Turambar figures out he’s in love with Nienor and is like ‘welp gonna marry that’ and Brandir is like ‘woah brosef slow down there’s like a war on and stuff’ so they wait a bit, and then Turambar is like ‘NOPE WAITED LONG ENOUGH GONNA MARRY HER NOW’ so Nienor and Turambar get married and they get a house AND IT’S PERFECT

and i was all NIENOR AND TURAMBAR OTP OTP OTP

so like two or three years pass and Nienor and Turambar are loving life and she’s having (or has had, not sure what he meant here) a kid and it’s perf, but then dragon satan shows up nearby, so Turambar’s like ‘well honey I’m off to war have dinner ready by eight’ 

shit goes down and Nienor has a mad Eowyn moment and is like ‘this is so totally not safe, guys, let’s get our shit and get out’ so most people do, including Brandir. Shit gets real pretty quickly and basically their town gets decimated, so Nienor goes a little bit crazy and is like ‘no way gotta go find my husband’s body’ and so her and Brandir wander to nearby the town where the battle took place and she finds Turambar’s body and it is the saddest goddamn thing ever.

and then dragon satan drops a truth bomb and tells them that Turambar wasn’t his real name. he’d changed it to hide his past his past as turin

HER BROTHER. SHE WAS MARRIED TO HER BROTHER AND NEITHER OF THEM KNEW IT AND HOLY SHIT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKING FUCK, TOLKIEN? WHAT THE FUUUUUUuuuuuUUCK

I WAS READING THIS ON THE TRAIN AND NO ONE WARNED ME AND I LIKE ACTUALLY SAID “WHAT” OUT LOUD AND PEOPLE STARED AT ME BUT THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT I’VE BEEN THROUGH TODAY ALRIGHT

[silmarillion-friendly-remin-blog]

Four pages of Turin <3

Is that all? Aw, we can do better than that.

[beleggs]

Beleg during chapter 9 of CoH:

[maderilien]

#ive just finished reading #goodness gracious #the end vanquished whatever was left of my being #which wasnt that much after beleg