Characters in The Children of Húrin

Turin Turambar

A man of great strength and dark pride, cursed by Morgoth through his father Hurin, whose every attempt to build something good ends in catastrophe. His story is the closest Tolkien comes to classical tragedy.

Morgoth

The Dark Lord whose personal curse on Hurin and his bloodline drives every disaster in the narrative, making him the story's engine even when he is offstage.

Also in Beren and Lúthien, The Fall of Gondolin

Glaurung

The Father of Dragons, whose power of illusion and cunning manipulation are central to the tragedy's climax.

Hurin

Turin's father, the greatest warrior of Men, who defies Morgoth and suffers an agonising fate -- imprisoned on a mountain, forced to watch the doom of all he loves unfold below him.

Beleg Cuthalion

Turin's loyal Elvish friend and greatest companion, whose fate in the story is one of its early devastating turns.