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Originally Posted by Urwen
Haahhaaa. If it's first-born,as Finrod says,then it can't be Lalaith,because if you have any knowledge you'll know that Turin was first-born, Lalaith second-born and Nienor third born of hin Hurin!  |
I'd assume the text is referring to Lalaith as the first–born
daughter rather than the eldest
child– although its possible that at the time he wrote this Tolkien did intend her to be the eldest, as he was in the habit of reworking his "Legendarium" and shifting around the details in just this way.*
Anyway, the editor (Christopher Tolkien) seems to think it's about Lalaith:
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This brief passage, scribbled on the back of an old gas bill and subsequently used to line the drawer in which my father kept his socks, contains not only an examination of the role of causality in Middle-earth but what appears to be a startling re-assessment of the part played by Húrin's daughter Urwen or Lalaith in the eventual fate of her siblings.
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*Though perhaps not to the extent of making Túrin a girl...