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'''The Words of Húrin and Morgoth''' is the third chapter of [[The Children of Húrin]].
'''The Words of Húrin and Morgoth''' is the third chapter of ''[[The Children of Húrin]]''.


==Synopsis==
==Synopsis==
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Yet still Húrin would not yield the secret of Turgon and indeed challenged and mocked Morgoth’s power, feeling that the Enemy did not now have the authority in [[Middle-earth]] to master the fates of Men. Thus Morgoth took Húrin and set him in a chair on a high place of [[Thangorodrim]] until such a time as he would release him. And there Morgoth granted Húrin his own sight, that he might see and hear to the ends of the land of [[Beleriand]], for Morgoth wished that Húrin would despair to see the evil tidings that would now befall Húrin's kin.
Yet still Húrin would not yield the secret of Turgon and indeed challenged and mocked Morgoth’s power, feeling that the Enemy did not now have the authority in [[Middle-earth]] to master the fates of Men. Thus Morgoth took Húrin and set him in a chair on a high place of [[Thangorodrim]] until such a time as he would release him. And there Morgoth granted Húrin his own sight, that he might see and hear to the ends of the land of [[Beleriand]], for Morgoth wished that Húrin would despair to see the evil tidings that would now befall Húrin's kin.


==Analysis==
This is perhaps the most successful of the chapters in the book thus far, as it deals with now established characters in detail and takes the reader through a specific series of events.
[[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] continues to depict horrific actions through suggestion alone, such as describing Húrin’s torture as ''chained and set in slow torment''. This only expands the possibilities and leaves the detail to the reader’s imagination. Other examples of his description of the horrific through suggestion include the ''hewing of the body of [[Gelmir of Nargothrond|Gelmir]]'' and the ''trampling of [[Fingon|Fingon’s]] corpse'' in the previous chapter.
What this chapter portrays more than much of Tolkien’s work is that of the actual figure of evil himself – Morgoth - we get to see him at close quarters. Just as he is limited to his flesh in [[Arda]] now, so we see him speak and '''feel'''. Yet his ''evil anger'' does not fully master his ''evil intent'' – his higher order of hate is that he would see pain delayed to become more sweet – he does not simply kill Húrin but imprisons him to see the fate of his family.
[[Category:The Children of Húrin chapters|Words of Hurin and Morgoth]]
[[Category:The Children of Húrin chapters|Words of Hurin and Morgoth]]
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Revision as of 06:29, 11 May 2013

The Children of Húrin chapters
  1. The Childhood of Túrin
  2. The Battle of Unnumbered Tears
  3. The Words of Húrin and Morgoth
  4. The Departure of Túrin
  5. Túrin in Doriath
  6. Túrin among the Outlaws
  7. Of Mîm the Dwarf
  8. The Land of Bow and Helm
  9. The Death of Beleg
  10. Túrin in Nargothrond
  11. The Fall of Nargothrond
  12. The Return of Túrin to Dor-lómin
  13. The Coming of Túrin into Brethil
  14. The Journey of Morwen and Niënor
  15. Niënor in Brethil
  16. The Coming of Glaurung
  17. The Death of Glaurung
  18. The Death of Túrin

The Words of Húrin and Morgoth is the third chapter of The Children of Húrin.

Synopsis

No tidings of what had befallen in the Battle of Unnumbered Tears ever came to Húrin's home, Dor-lómin.

Húrin was brought swiftly to Morgoth in Angband, for Morgoth had heard rumour that Húrin knew of the whereabouts of Gondolin - and he desired to know the location of Turgon's city so he might have a fuller victory. But Húrin was undaunted by the power of the Enemy and would not give up his knowledge, even under slow pain and torture.

So Morgoth took Húrin to Haudh-en-Nirnaeth, which was a mound freshly made of the bodies of the fallen at the very heart of the plain of Anfauglith. There again Morgoth could not master Húrin’s will and so in anger he cursed Húrin and Morwen and their offspring saying, “the shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go.”

Yet still Húrin would not yield the secret of Turgon and indeed challenged and mocked Morgoth’s power, feeling that the Enemy did not now have the authority in Middle-earth to master the fates of Men. Thus Morgoth took Húrin and set him in a chair on a high place of Thangorodrim until such a time as he would release him. And there Morgoth granted Húrin his own sight, that he might see and hear to the ends of the land of Beleriand, for Morgoth wished that Húrin would despair to see the evil tidings that would now befall Húrin's kin.

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