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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hickli
Because it's from The Children of Hurin, where CRT has avoided like the plague any deviation from the source-texts, unlike his younger self.
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The quote first appears in the Silmarillion, in Of Turin Turambar. I am not aware it appears in Tolkien's own writings.
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I don't believe he planned the Fall of Doriath in detail. But he did know that Hurin would bring hate and malice with him, which would bear fruit; and far more powerfully than did young Turin, who only precipitated the death of Saeros and his own exile. And if the Oath and the Kinslaying played roles, well, Morgoth was behind those too.
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We are going in circles. Hurin himself brought little if any malice, as it has been covered more than once already. As for the hoard, oath and the kinslaying arguments, they are, as I mentioned from my first post, seeds of evil which develop independently from Melkor's will. One could even argue that there is no evidence that Melkor planned and caused the hoard to be cursed, the oath to be taken and the kinslaying to occur; nor that he continue to control their chains of events towards the destruction of Doriath.