Do you think there’s a direct link between Orodreth not sending a single soldier to the Nirnaeth (like dude. Even Gondolin showed up.) and letting himself be convinced to build that bridge two decades later? How he went from so extremely cautious to much too reckless? Do you think he saw how the Nirnaeth ended (in defeat like he predicted, only so much worse) and felt guilt that he hadn’t even tried? Do you think he saw the consequences of Morgoth’s victory and knew that he could have done something to stop it? That he tells himself they’d still have lost and Nargothrond would’ve been no more if they’d joined the fight, but it doesn’t matter what he tells himself because he’ll never know if he could’ve made a difference, so the guilt eats him alive. That when he takes Turin in he doesn’t see only this one Man, but rather all Morgoth’s victims since the Nirnaeth. That perhaps he feels that Turin's misfortune, like all the others’, is blood on his own hands. Like he’s now faced (literally) with the consequences of his inaction. That none of it would have happened if only he’d fought, or at least he could have mitigated the damage. And that’s why, when Turin argues so strongly for the bridge, for the offense, Orodreth ignores all other advice? Because it’s Turin. Turin who has lost everything to Morgoth, but might not have if only Nargothrond had fought. Because this is Orodreth’s chance to fight and make right. To stop Morgoth from ravaging the land; to do something good? And how the direct consequence of this decision is Nargothrond’s destruction and the death of everybody he wanted to protect in the first place
because I do