A living soul, absolved from pain by Himring  

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Fanwork Notes

It may not be possible to write a genuine fix-it for Hurin without going full AU, perhaps. But a prompt from an Insta-drabbling session on the SWG Discord made me want to try to make the ending of his story a little less bleak.

The prompt was: while the war drifts away, forgotten at last, from Siegfried Sassoon's poem Break of Day.

Warning that in the sources, this is a reported suicide, and even in this version, character death is implied.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Hurin at the shore of the Western Sea.

Major Characters: Húrin, Hador

Major Relationships:

Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet

Challenges:

Rating: Teens

Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings

This fanwork belongs to the series

Chapters: 1 Word Count: 102
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Poor Hurin--he's suffered so much pain! At least it's a kinder thought that he gets an older family member (so that he doesn't have to be the strong and brave one for once) to lead him through.