Character Analysis: Hurin and Turin

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally Posted by Telcontar_Dunedain

Question: Was Turin's honour earned of just beacause he was Hurin's son?

Too much of the both Turin's and Morwen's pride was based on their former positions as royalty, rather than upon their charactors and deeds. These feelings of privilege, entitlement, dispossesion let them to many of their worst choices. Hurin's pride was solidly founded in his own strenghs and charactor, making it a better force in his life. Whereas Turin could easily be goaded into impulsive and evil acts, and Morwen would endanger her family and contribute to poisoning of Turin's character by her vanities, Hurin could not even be broken to evil by the direct in person applied will of Morgoth, who could control millions by his will, break the wills of mighty Eldar, bring out multiple evils even unto murder in the greatest of the Noldor. Hurin could only be decieved and subtly manipulated by decades of filtered information, propaganda, bainwashing, and sorcerous pressures, Turin could be reprogramed by a few minutes of effort by Glaurung.