The gentle, club-footed lord of the woodmen of Brethil in the days when Turin came among them, and the last ruler of Haleth's house. A healer rather than a warrior, he loved Niniel — the woman without memory whom his people found by Finduilas's grave — and watched helplessly as she wed Turin instead. When Glaurung died at Turin's hand, the dragon's last malice undid every concealment: Brandir heard the truth, that Niniel was Nienor, Turin's own sister, and carried that truth to Turin — who in his fury named him liar and club-foot and slew him, the innocent bearer of the unbearable. Of all the deaths in the tale of the children of Hurin, Brandir's is the cruelest measure of the curse.