#narn i hîn húrin

[theworldsoftolkein]

Turin & Glaurung - by Raoul Vitale Art

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

"[Pengolodh] was one of the survivors of the destruction of Gondolin, from which he rescued a few ancient writings, and some of his own copies, compilations, and commentaries. It is due to this, and to his prodigious memory, that much of the knowledge of the Elder Days was preserved." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The History of Middle-earth: The War of the Jewels, "Appendix D: Quendi and Eldar"

"...the Narn i Hîn Húrin was the work of a Mannish poet, Dírhavel, who lived at the Havens of Sirion in the days of Eärendil, and there gathered all the tidings that he could of the House of Hador, whether among Men or Elves, remnants and fugitives of Dor-lómin, of Nargothrond, of Gondolin, or of Doriath. [...] this lay, longest of all the lays of Beleriand, was all that he ever made, but it was prized by the Eldar, for Dírhavel used the Grey-elven tongue, in which he had great skill." - J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales, "The Tale of the Children of Húrin"

@tolkienofcolourweek || day 4: music + artwork || pengolodh & dírhaval, chroniclers of lore

[ID: an edit comprised of 4 graphics. Each shows a small rectangular image framed in teal on a greyish-beige background. There is teal text underneath each image.

1: Chloe Magno, a filipino-american model with tan skin and short black hair. She is wearing a grey garment, partially fallen off her shoulders, and is looking at the viewer pensively. The text reads "pengolodh" and "loremaster of the noldor" / 2: Bound scrolls written in various scripts. Text reads "writer of the grey annals" / 3: Stringed instruments from a variety of cultures hanging on a wall. Text reads "composer of the narn i chîn húrin" / 4: Ismael Savane, an ivorian model with dark skin and close-cropped hair. He is wearing a light brown jacket and has his hands interlaced in front of him as he looks directly at the viewer with a thoughtful, serious expression /End ID]

[warrioreowynofrohan]

I decided to pick all the sections with over 10% of votes in the previous polls for this one, since some were close.

[valiantarcher]

Why is 'The Children of Húrin' masquerading as 'Turambar and the Foalókë' in The Book of Lost Tales, Part II??? Is it not enough that one has to suffer through it as 'Of Túrin Turambar' in The Silmarillion and as 'Narn I Hîn Húrin' in Unfinished Tales and as 'The Lay of the Children of Húrin' in The Lays of Beleriand, and that it also exists in standalone form as The Children of Húrin???

[thegreatstrongbow]

Beleg is a healer. His practical experience is field medicine - the kinds of wounds you would get on a battlefield or out on the marches. Broken bones, wounds, minor burns, to some degree internal injuries etc.

He also has a vast knowledge of herb-lore and plants and which plants make good treatments - and which to avoid. He can identify them easily and he knows how to make salves, ointments and teas from them. Most of this is knowledge gained through long years of trial and error.

But Beleg's ability extends beyond this practical experience and into the spiritual:

Now Beleg was sorely wounded, but he was mighty among the Elves of Middle-earth, and he was moreover a master of healing. (Of Túrin Turambar, Silmarillion)

In the morning Beleg, being swiftly healed of his pains, after the manner of the Elven-folk of old, spoke to Túrin apart. (Narn i Hîn Húrin, UT)

Now was it that it came into the heart of Beleg the hunter of the Elves to seek after Turin so soon as his own hurts were healed. This being done in no great number of days, for he had a skill of healing… (Turambar and the Foaloke, BOLT2) (Source for the quotes + some interesting info)

He can heal - both himself and others - with his fëa, much like we see Glorfindel/Arwen heal Frodo or Tauriel heal Kili.

It takes considerably more effort to heal others than himself and it can leave him feeling drained and weak.

Healing himself, on the other hand, is a rejuvenating experience and will leave him both healed and feeling energised, at least temporarily.

His ability to heal like this is considerably stronger than many healers, since it is (partially - there would be exceptions) tied to the age of the fëa. Both in verses where he lives and ones where he is reborn, it becomes even stronger, although he uses it far less and would consider himself 'out of practice'.

[ashorelandpiper]

Honestly Túrin didn’t even do anything wrong, your twenties are just Like That

[aldarquen]

The Unfinished Tales, Picrew Style - Narn i hîn Húrin: Part 1 Some main elves from the Children of Hurin: Elu Thingol, King Orodreth, Saeros, Mablung, Gwindor, and Beleg Cúthalion. Fingon makes an appearance though he passes through Dor-lomin very briefly. Gelmir and Arminas arrive at Nargothrond with word from Cirdan, though I'll make them when I work on Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin. Credit: https://picrew.me/image_maker/708151

[tolkienmatters]

Now after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad Morwen abode still in Dor-lómin, for Túrin was but eight years old, and she was again with child. Those days were evil; for the Easterlings that came into Hithlum despised the remnant of the people of Hador, and they oppressed them, and took their lands and their goods, and enslaved their children. But so great was the beauty and majesty of the Lady of Dor-lómin that the Easterlings were afraid, and dared not to lay hands upon her or her household; and they whispered among themselves, saying that she was perilous, and a witch skilled in magic and in league with the Elves. Yet she was now poor and without aid, save that she was succoured secretly by a kinswoman of Húrin named Aerin, whom Brodda, an Easterling, had taken as his wife; and Morwen feared greatly that Túrin would be taken from her and enslaved. Therefore it came into her heart to send him away in secret, and to beg King Thingol to harbour him, for Beren son of Barahir was her father's kinsman, and he had been moreover a friend of Húrin, ere evil befell. Therefore in the autumn of the Year of Lamentation Morwen sent Túrin forth over the mountains with two aged servants, bidding them find entry, if they could, into the kingdom of Doriath. Thus was the fate of Túrin woven, which is fulltold in that lay that is called Narn i Hîn Húrin, the Tale of the Children of Húrin, and is the longest of all the lays that speak of those days. Here that tale is told in brief, for it is woven with the fate of the Silmarils and of the Elves; and it is called the Tale of Grief, for it is sorrowful, and in it are revealed most evil works of Morgoth Bauglir.

The early life and escape of Túrin Turambar. Silmarillion, Of Túrin Turambar

[theworldsoftolkein]

Turin - by ILXWING

[tolkienfantasy]

Melkor and Acalagon the black

" I'm the Elder King : Melkor, first and mightiest of all the Valar, who was before the world, and made it. The shadow of my purpose lies upon Arda, and all that is in it bends slowly and surely to my will. But upon all whom you love my thought shall weigh as a cloud of Doom, and it shall bring them down into darkness & despair. Wherever they go, evil shall arise. Whenever they speak, their words shall bring ill counsel. Whatsoever they do shall turn against them. They shall die without hope..."

(J. R. R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales, Narn i Hîn Húrin)

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[silmarillionwritersguild]

New Year's Resolution Challenge Stories List

Our New Year's Resolution challenge is over, and there have been several exciting contributions by people who snatched their chance to complete a challenge that they missed out on last year. Well done! We hope you’ll find the time to take a look at some (or all) of them if you haven’t already. The links in this round-up post go to the respective Table of Contents, where you can view more information about the story, except in one case, where the story is part of a collection. If you enjoy an author's work, please consider dropping them a comment to let them know! A Bridge to Tomorrow by Independence1776. Maglor rescues Celebrían before the orcs take her deep into their caves. Life in Imladris will never be the same. "And play at books that I have read" by Himring. An evening sees the family of Rivendell peacefully assembled around the fire. Part of the collection Taking Readings II By Fate Mastered by Lyra. For Túrin, nothing turns out as he planned. A series of drabbles inspired by (of all things) the Sitcom! Bingo challenge and the Narn i Hîn Húrin. Glimpse of the Hidden Past by StarSpray. While on vacation, a pair of young women decide to explore some ruins. One of them discovers something startling. Liver, Heart and Soul by Scribe of Mirrormere. Caranthir hears of a Moriquendi tribe with a rather unusual practice. He wishes to seek their demise immediately, but one of his daughters selects a different path. Maegnas by HannaGoldworthy. A blade forged from star-metal by the hand of an Elf from Nan Elmoth proves to be capable of speech, thought, and being judgmental.  No, not that one, another one. Olwë's Home for Wayward Elves by Morcondil. A series of misadventures has left Galadriel in disgrace; Finarfin thinks a summer with Olwë might help his daughter find her way. After all: nothing exciting ever happens in Alqualondë. A story of questionable fashion choices, growing up, and finding one's place. Steel Rose by HannaGoldworthy. A clan of Easterlings makes their way into Beleriand, where they forge an unlikely friendship with the very people they are supposed to betray.

Tending the Lady's Garden by Raiyana. The Tale of Findis the dumb lesbian and the equally daft gardener who loves her. The Tenth Ring by Eris of Imladris. Celebrimbor has a nagging suspicion that something is wrong while he works on the ninth ring to be given to Men. Last but not least, in the art department, Grundy has created three Bingo cards for the B2MeM Bingo Bash following prompts from the Holiday Feast challenge! Some house-keeping notes: Dawn is busily working on the stamp collections and hoping to have them finished by the next weekend. If you need a comment stamp for a challenge prior to the November/December challenge or if you are missing a stamp from your collection, please contact us at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org or through any of our social media channels. Thank you for taking part in this challenge! Our next challenge has already been announced, and we hope you'll (again) find prompts that inspire you. Until next time!    

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Still working on a revised Silmarillion Daily sequence of events (outline: January 1-19 are ‘prologue’ material covering the Ainulindalë, Valaquenta, and the events prior to the awakening of the Elves; after that, each day covers three years, from the awakening of the Elves to the end of the First Age of the Sun) and the speed of the tragedies at the end of the First Age is brutal:

November 30: Fall of Nargothrond; Morwen and Nienor are lost when they go to find what happened

December 1: Túrin and Níniel marry, Glaurung reveals Níniel’s identity to her, suicide of Túrin and Nienor

December 2: Death of Morwen and Húrin, death of Thingol, sack of Doriath by the Dwarves

December 3: Second Kinslaying

December 4: Maeglin captured by Morgoth

December 5: Fall of Gondolin

With the events of the Silm condensed to the space of a year, the fall of the only 3 realms to survive the Nirnaeth Arneodiad all happens in less than a week. Nargothrond, Doriath, Doriath again, and Gondolin. That on top of the last two-thirds of the Narn i Hîn Húrin.

[alicebeckstrom]

Thus was the fate of Túrin woven, which is fulltold in that lay that is called Narn i Hîn Húrin, the Tale of the Children of Húrin, and is the longest of all the lays that speak of those days. ~ The Silmarillion, Chapter 21 (The Children of Húrin, illustrated by Alan Lee)

[daisyachain]

Coming back to The Lord of the Rings after spending so much time in the earlier parts of the Legendarium, it’s interesting to see what allusions there are in LoTR and how the stories are remembered. Even though the Elves and their history do thread through the story, references to Fëanor’s skill, Beren and Lúthien, Eärendil, the heroes referred to are only Men. Specifically Beren and Túrin are mentioned but not Fingolfin or Finrod (Eärendil is technically an Elf but in spirit he’s a Man).

Some of it may just be that Tolkien developed the Silm mythos after he’d already thought of the three main tales (Beren and Lúthien, Narn î Hîn Húrin, The Fall of Gondolin), some of it may be that the story is told through the eyes of Hobbits whose stories come from Men, but I like to think that the great heroes are Men because they have a choice. Elves are stronger, wiser, more skilled, and so it’s their duty to perform great deeds. Harpers sing sadly of Gil-Galad, but he isn’t a hero of lore because it’s his duty to oppose Sauron. Men, on the other hand, are weak, short-lived, and corruptible, so when they use their limited time to defy the Dark Powers they become legends. Even though Lúthien and Finrod rescued Beren, he’s the hero because he’s Just A Dude. Even though Túrin relied on Beleg and Gwindor, he’s the hero because again—He’s Some Guy. Whatever his lineage, he should have been just a blot on the page in the long history of Middle-Earth, but he wasn’t.