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In my mind, the chief negative consequence of Turin's failure to heed Gwindor's advice was his happening upon Nienor, and their resultant marriage. Turin's death seemed imminent regardless, a fate given him by a power much greater than his own - but what Turin represents (imo) is the ancient ideal of personal honor and incorruption as virtues of far greater importance than whether one lives or dies - which makes his unnatural marriage infinitely worse than death in battle, death by torture, or anything else Morgoth could have devised.
Why did Gwindor mention Finduilas specifically? Why not tell him not to fall in love with the naked girl running through the forest, or something else more directly related to his final fate? I think that the Finduilas strand is a 'What if...?' which Tolkien left vague intentionally - another layer of the misty veil surrounding the predestined fall of his tragic hero.
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"This miserable drizzling afternoon I have been reading up old military lecture-notes again:- and getting bored with them after an hour and a half. I have done some touches to my nonsense fairy language - to its improvement."
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