The Mystery of the Vanishing Elf by AdmirableMonster

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Summary:

An essay on the subject of where the hell Beleg Cúthalion gets to in the second half of The Children of Húrin.  He may be dead, but why is even his memory conspicuously absent?

Major Characters: Beleg, Finduilas, Glaurung, Nienor, Túrin

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Artwork Type: No artwork type listed

Genre: Nonfiction/Meta

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Rating: Teens

Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 575
Posted on 25 January 2021 Updated on 6 February 2021

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Table of Contents

The Mystery of the Vanishing Elf

Thanks to starlightwalking for the beta!

All page numbers from the 2007 HarperCollins edition of The Children of Húrin, ISBN 978 0 00 724622 9

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This is a very interesting take!

I myself tend to think that Turin did this to himself, rather than Glaurung, because he could not bear the memory of Beleg's loss and his involvement in it, even after he had made his song about it.

But I can see how you arrived at your conclusions! And it could be both factors, I suppose, together with Morgoth's curse?

And that parallel you draw with the flash of lightning is certainly very striking!