Also known as: Turambar, Neithan, Gorthol, Agarwaen, Adanedhel, Mormegil, The Black Sword Of Nargothrond
Turin son of Hurin and Morwen, called Turambar, "Master of Doom," is the tragic hero of the darkest of the tales of the First Age. Because his father Hurin defied Morgoth to his face, the Dark Lord laid a curse upon all his kin, and Turin's life of great valour and beauty became a long chain of sorrow and unlooked-for ruin. Sent for safety to Doriath and fostered by King Thingol, he grew proud and quick to wrath; a bitter quarrel with the counsellor Saeros ended in Saeros's death, and Turin fled into the wild rather than face judgement, and there became an outlaw.
Under many names and disguises he won renown and brought disaster wherever he went. As the Mormegil, the Black Sword of Nargothrond, he became the great captain of that hidden realm, wielding the cursed black blade Gurthang re-forged from Anglachel; but his proud counsel to make open war laid the city bare to the dragon Glaurung, who sacked it. Ensnared again and again by the dragon's malice and lies, he failed to save the captive Finduilas who loved him, and at the last, his memory and hers clouded by Glaurung's spells, he unknowingly wedded his own sister Nienor. When the dragon was slain and the truth laid bare, Nienor cast herself into the gorge of the river Teiglin, and Turin, learning all, fell upon his own black sword. His tale, gathered as The Children of Hurin, is the bitterest of the legends of the Elder Days.