Also known as: Hurin The Steadfast
Hurin Thalion, the Steadfast, Lord of Dor-lomin and chief of the House of Hador, was the mightiest warrior among Men in the Elder Days, and in his youth a guest of the hidden city of Gondolin, whose secret he kept ever after. At the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, when the alliance of Elves and Men was broken by treachery, Hurin and his brother Huor held the rearguard at the Fen of Serech so that Turgon and the host of Gondolin might cut their way free and the line of kings be preserved. With his axe he hewed down the troll-guard of Gothmog, crying "Aure entuluva!" -- "Day shall come again!" -- at each stroke, seventy times, until he alone was left standing and was at last taken alive by Morgoth's command.
Morgoth set him in a high seat upon Thangorodrim and, when Hurin would not betray the secret of Gondolin, cursed him and all his kin, binding him there to watch through the Dark Lord's own malice the doom that fell upon his children Turin and Nienor. For nearly thirty years he endured this torment. Released at last, aged and broken by grief and the lies poured into his mind, his few remaining deeds were bitter ones: the cursed Nauglamir that he bore out of the ruin of Nargothrond to Doriath kindled the strife that brought down Thingol's kingdom. At the end, it is said, he cast himself into the western sea.