[Nogrod]

Without claiming any expertise on Tolkien's life vs. his works, WW I comes to mind with that interesting point you make Inzil. I have never quite spotted that curious thing there!

I'm not a great fan of biographical interpretation of mostly anything but here I think it might be semi-appropriate... I mean it looks like a too much to be a coincidence, now that you point at it.

So those wounded in battles knew better than those who came in fresh / happened not being wounded? In the trenches of WW I that is, like where the Prof himself was? It doesn't take a psychology major to be able to think there could be a difference in attitude & view of things between someone who has been maimed in a battle and one with "hybris" (put here the specific hybris of Túrin).

Nicely spotted - and merits more thought...