Niënor Níniel

Niënor, also known as Níniel (pronounced ), is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, appearing in the Narn i Chîn Húrin told in full in The Children of Húrin and briefly in The Silmarillion. Early versions of the story are Turambar and the Foalókë and The Lay of the Children of Húrin.
Appearance and history
Nienor was the third child of Húrin Thalion, Lord of the House of Hador, and Morwen Eledhwen of the House of Bëor. Her elder brother was Túrin, but her sister Lalaith died of a plague four years before Nienor's birth. Nienor "was tall, and her eyes were blue, her hair fine gold, the very likeness in woman's form of Húrin her father." The road to Doriath meanwhile was cleared of enemies by the prowess of Mormegil, a lord of Nargothrond, and when Nienor was 21 years old, she and her mother at last decided to journey to Doriath.
They were well received there, but found no tidings of Túrin except that he fled from the land and was rumoured to have been captured by Orcs five years before. Morwen with daughter remained as guests in the keeping of King Thingol and Melian, until after they heard a rumour that the mysterious Mormegil was actually Túrin, but his fate was not known after the fall of Nargothrond. Morwen set out to gather news of her son, with a small escort of Elves under Mablung, but against Morwen's wish Nienor followed them.
Unfortunately, the dragon Glaurung sensed their approach and issued from his lair in the ruined halls of Nargothrond. He caused a cloud of mist and foul vapour to rise from the river Narog, and the party's horses panicked; Morwen was lost, and Nienor was separated from the rest. When she ascended the Spyhill, unawaringly she stared into the eyes of Glaurung lying hidden, and though "she was strong in will", Nienor at last yielded to his enchantments and Glaurung put her in a state of total amnesia and dumbness. The amnesiac woman was found by Mablung, who intended to take her back to Doriath, but their company was attacked by Orcs near Nivrim. Nienor suddenly regained her feelings though not memory, and fled away in fear, tore off her clothes and ran naked through the woods until she fainted near the Forest of Brethil.
Her brother Túrin, who at that time hid his past under the pseudonym Turambar, found her lying on Haudh-en-Elleth, the grave of an Elf Woman from Nargothrond who had loved him; Finduilas. Because Nienor did not remember her identity and Turambar had never met his second sister, he named her Níniel which means "Tear-Maiden" and brought her to the dwellings of the woodfolk at Ephel Brandir. Níniel fell sick having seen the Ravines of Taeglin from the Rainy Stair, but Brandir the Chieftain of the Men of Brethil tended her and taught her to speak, secretly falling in love with her; Níniel, however, loved Turambar. Brandir restrained her from marriage, foreboding evil doom, but after two years Turambar promised Níniel to go never again to war and at midsummer they were wedded.
By the next spring, when Níniel was two months pregnant, Glaurung left Nargothrond intending to devastate Brethil. He was slain by Turambar at the ravine of Cabed-en-Aras, but the venom from the Dragon's wound and his final malice made Turambar faint. Níniel feared for her husband, and waited for tidings by Nen Girith. When it became apparent to men that Turambar failed, Brandir purposed to lead her away from the forthcoming ruin of Brethil. Níniel, however, was unwilling to be parted from her beloved even after his death, and fled away, followed by Brandir.
She was frightened by the sight of Haudh-en-Elleth, and turned back to Cabed-en-Aras. There she found Turambar, deemed him dead and cried his name aloud; but she was answered by Glaurung, who lived yet. He revealed to her the truth of her kinship with Turambar and their cruel fate, and with the death of the dragon the spell of forgetfulness was lifted from Nienor. Distraught with woe and horror, she mourned for Túrin: "Farewell, O twice beloved! A Túrin Turambar turún' ambartanen: master of doom by doom mastered! O happy to be dead!" Nienor fled then from Brandir urging her to wait and killed herself:

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