Hurin and despair

[Findegil]

The History of Middle-Earth is not giving full storys of things given in bits in other books. The natur of The History of Middle-Earth is to give even more bits not less. In the case of the Narn î Chin Húrin you will find in the The History of Middle-Earth a chapter about Dríhavel the poet of the Story, a further discription of Hurins and Hours stay in Gondolin, a further acount of the Nirneath Arnoediad, a few drafts for the revelation of the truth about Níniel to Túrin that were not taken up in the story and last but not least The Wanderings of Húrin which discriebed Húrins dealings in Hithlum after his release his approch towards Gondolin and the disaster of Brethil promoted by Húrins coming before the text braeks of.
In addition you can find some older telling of the story (espacialy The Lay of the Children of Húrin)that will add much detail but are not cannon.

Posted by davem:

If he'd been really desperate to get infomation from him, he'd have put Hurin through torture, broken his mind & got it.

Morgoth tried exactly that. But he found him harder than he had expacted. Then he tried to bride him over by the promis of wealth and high rank in his army. But that didn't work either and led Húrin only to mockery. I think that what angered Morgoth mostly was that Húrin precived the truth: Morgoth hadn't any way to get the information out of him as long as he was steadfast.

Respectfully
Findegil