Húrin and Morwen’s children all have names that connect in some ways to their deaths.
Túrin can be read as meaning master of purpose (Tûr, master and ind, purpose, intention or heart) and he dies by his own hand after decades of fighting against the curse. Urwen, meaning fire maiden, dies from fever. Niënor, mourning and tears, dies in running or falling water.
This entire family is doomed from the very beginning!
I think of Húrin when he gives that knife to Túrin, warning him it will cut his hand as willingly as all else. He looks up at the young son he just set on the table, beaming at him, and feels a shiver he can’t explain. The knife held for just a moment, in less than steady hands…
And of course I think always of Morwen doing everything she can to keep herself and her children alive but at the same time sure to her bones that the only power that matters in Beleriand is Morgoth’s. She’s felt this shadow of death since long before the actual curse.
