Awesome deaths!!!

[Kuruharan]

Yes, this does seem like a fairly morbid topic, but here goes anyway.

Smaug and Glaurung. Very dramatic and killing dragons is better than killing Balrogs any day of the week!!!! (Long story, that... )

But seriously, you have to admire the way that Ecthelion went out.

[Thorongil]

Or the great flash when Fingons helm was cloven(or something like that). It sounds cool. And I laughed when I saw the movie, and Denethor fell flaming down from that place.

[Numenorean]

(I'm sure you noticed that I'm delighting in the deathes of good guys mostly, but I assure you that's just a coinsidence.)

Sure it is Eli
But yeah there are some seriously well deserved (and otherwise) deaths in Middle Earth. I do not find death itself (even Broddas) awesome at all, just the way JRRT describes such incidents within the broader context of his Legends. As such the sheer dramatic and literary impact of Broddas overdue comeuppance at the fell hands of the Blacksword, is something:

'Not first will I die here!' he cried. And seized Brodda, and with the strength of his great anguish and wrath he lifted him on high and shook him, as if he were a dog. 'Morwen of the thrall-folk, did you say? You dastards, thief, slave of slaves!' Thereupon he flung Brodda head foremost across his own table, full in the face of an Easterling that rose to assail Túrin.
In that fall Brodda's neck was broken; and Túrin leapt after his cast and slew three more...

Kuru

But seriously, you have to admire the way that Ecthelion went out.

Definately.

[Evisse the Blue]

(I'm sure you noticed that I'm delighting in the deathes of good guys mostly, but I assure you that's just a coinsidence.)

Whereas I seem to 'delight' in the death of good girls. Delight is not the word though; more of a quiet 'wow' and a shudder. For instance, from the deaths in Silm (of which you agree quite many are gory), I have been very impressed by the death of Finduilas, (which doesn't even take so much space), but I imagined her very clearly surrounded by orcs, impaled to that tree...and keep in mind the fact that she expected and hoped for help until the very last minute...Still Turin never came.
Another impressive demise is Nienor's leap into Cabed-en-Aras. This is so like a Greek tragedy - her death is foreshadowed and anticipated pages before and yet -or maybe even more because of it- it strikes you.

[Lalaith]

Thanks Numenorean for highlighting the death of Brodda. You're quite right, a very impressive passage - Turin in his wrath must have been quite something to see.

[Kransha]

Well, Gollum rather obviously (who wouldn't want to plummet into lava?)

Also, even though dragons were mentioned, no one said anything about Ancalagon. He was slain by Earendil the Mariner, and his bulk was so huge that when his limp form fell from the sky, it took the towers of Angband that he fell on with him (not entirely sure if it was Angband or another evil outpost. Wasn't Tol-in-Gaurhoth). All in all, he was a heavy fellow, who weighed a lot, and died. That's pretty awesome in itself (or not).

Hmm...let me think of some others. Was going to say Nienor, but that would be both obvious and repetetive. I guess you could say that the Witch-King of Angmar's death was very awesome, despite being done in by a lady and hobbit (nothing against either *nervous laughter*)

Now then...more...more...thinking....

[NightKnight]

Most people in Gondolin's Fall, actually. Rog and his people who went on a balrog killing spree, one guy who got shot down from the walls with a firebolt... And of course Ecthelion.
Hmm, others... Like Thorongil said, Fingon's death was pretty cool, as well as Fingolfin's.

[Olorin_TLA]

What about Boromir? Or Glorfindel? Or Gandalf for that matter? And Gil-Galad.