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Chapter 21: Of Turin Turambar
CHAPTER 21: OF TURIN TURAMBAR
Additional Reading: Unfinished Tales: Narn I Hin Hurin Book of Lost Tales 2: Turambar and the Foaloke Lays of Beleriand: The Lay of the Children of Hurin And possibly more, that’s all the HOME I have access to. Quote:
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Sabor and Turin speak on many things in the Narn, but on page 62 of the Unfinished Tales, Sabor tells Turin, regarding the relations of the Edain and the Eldar, something that is very prophetic: Quote:
Turin and his companions managed to get lost in the Girdle of Melian, but lucky for them, Beleg Strongbow came along and led them to Menegroth. Turin was well received by King Thingol, because Ol’ Thingol no longer hated the Edain, due to Beren’s rescue of the Silmaril, and Hurin’s and Huor’s last stand at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. Anyway, he was treated with honor, as a foster son of the king, yet he remained sorrowed. Messengers regularly went to Dor-lomin to bring word, and to try to persuade Morwen to bring herself and Nienor to Menegroth, but she refused, being too stubborn to leave her husbands land. She did send the Dragon-Helm of Dor-lomin, however, “one of the greatest heirlooms of the house of hador.” About nine years passed of Turins abiding in Menegroth, when the messengers went out, but did not return, and the king would send no more. At this news, Turin went to Thingol and asked for mail and a sword, and he went to battle on the marches of Doriath, fighting alongside Beleg Cuthalion. After three years, Turin went back to Menegroth. He came in dirty and unkempt from the field, and an elf of the place, Saeros, who was jealous of his favor with the king, taunted him saying: Quote:
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