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Originally Posted by Findegil
RD-SL-03: About the death of Mîm: you are right the scene with the arrow in his throat is in origin the death the traitor Ban from the Lay. We used that for Mîm because the same picture is called for in one version of the curse of Androg. Thus Tolkien seemed to had that kind of death in mind for the trator of Túrins band from a very early time he work on that story (the Lay) to the last (CoH).
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But, isn't it explicitly stated in
The Wanderings of Húrin that it is Húrin himself who slays Mîm? Quoting:
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Húrin comes to Nargothrond and slays Mîm the petty-dwarf. He and his men carry off the treasure of Glaurung and bring it to Doriath. Húrin is admitted in pity.
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The War of the Jewels, 'The Wanderings of Húrin', entry
502, p. 258