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[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Urwen

Turin might have been slightly insane, and deserved to die at one point. But Nienor wasn't. Why did she have to die as well?

Did he? Weren't all his unfortunes just because of the curse Morgoth made? Wasn't that the whole point; that everything he tried (but turning to Morgoth) were doomed to fail? Wasn't that the tragic of it all, that he should not bend but fight even if it went from bad to worse? And Nienor, sure, was a victim of the same curse. Neither had a fault of their own, but the curse hanging on them.

And those curses spanning over several generations are a frequent motive in many myths (including the Bible).

Oedipus didn't want to do bad but s**t happened. That's what tragedy is about?