Most Tragic Tolkien's Legendarium Characters
Just as there was song, cheer and merriment in Middle-earth, there was also sorrow, hopelessness and unnumbered tears shed. Due to the nature of this list, spoilers are abundant.
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Túrin Turambar
This man could have achieved great things if he wasn't cursed, and even though he tried to do good, Morgoth's malice and Glaurung's sadism put a stop to that. Considered to be the greatest of mortal Men in the Elder Days.
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Gollum/Smeagol
Gollum is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He was introduced in the 1937 children's fantasy novel The Hobbit and became an important supporting character in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings. In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, he is portrayed... read more
Just a normal hobbit until he found the Ring of Power. You know the rest.
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Fëanor
Went through a lot of pain, desipte being a complete @ss with an ego the size of the universe.
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Húrin
He was a great warrior who was renowned in Beleriand and had a lovely wife and kingdom. Then the Battle of Unnumbered Tears happened. He fought unto a bitter end, and hen was taken into Angband by Orcs, and he refused to tell Morgoth the location of Gondolin, so Morgoth chained him to a chair and cursed his family, forcing him to watch their suffering.
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Nienor Niniel
Turin's sister. Went to live in Doriath with her mother, and grew in a beautiful young woman. Her mother, Morwen, found out Turin was a warrior in Nargothrond, they went there, but it had already fallen and Nienor was placed in an amnesiac trance by the dragon Glaurung.
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Beren
Was a mortal man who fell in love with Luthien, the most beautiful elf-maiden in Arda. They went on a quest to infiltrate Angband and steal a Silmaril, so they could marry, but things went awry after that...
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Luthien Tinuviel
See above. She had a better life than her husband, Beren, but went through a lot alongside him so they could be together.
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Brandir the Lame
Poor bastard. He genuinely cared for and loved Niniel, but the fact that Niniel was cursed and she unknowingly married her brother, who was also cursed, meant that things would not end well.
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Melkor/Morgoth
Kinda hard to feel sorry for him after all the evil things he did, but if you couldn't sing what you wanted, then you'd be pretty angry too.
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Arwen
Similar situation to Luthien.
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Boromir
