Turin Turambar

Turin Turambar is the hero of the Elder Days of the same name in the Silmarillion, returned from the dead to join the armies of Men at Armaggedon.

Due to his suicide, Turin was not admitted into Heaven when Christ broke the Departed Just out of Limbo, but remained in Purgatory for another 2000 years, being resurrected in the autumn of 2011. Whether he is numbered among the Saints or is merely raised from the dead like Beren, he has not told.

He came back to life at the rock known in riddles as the Eye of the Snake, partway up a twisting intersection in Winsted. There several of the Dragon-born, accompanied by police, tried to kill him, but were prevented by Forest calling awake the nearby trees. Turin escaped and was taken in and fed by Old Nuncle Jimmy, who took him to Old Baptist where he was intending to seek for his sword.

Turin, in full Beleriandic garb, stalked up the aisle during the service and caused a scene, but Forest and Hunter Light drove him to Grandmother Lane. They were ambushed by police and Dragon-born, but rescued by the arrows of Beleg Strongbow, who had also been resurrected. They came to Grandmother Lane on foot, where Turin in a solemn formulaic ritual claimed his sword from Grandmother Lane and addressed strange words to it, for it was astonished to see him alive, that it might forget his blood. Turin, Beleg and Forest then hiked to Street Hill and entered the underground passages beneath the Jumbo.

There Turin, to retrieve from the Treasury his Dragon-helm, had to face an illusion of Glaurung and all those he had slain; but on his stabbing Glaurung, the illusion collapsed and he got the Helm. He has since been dwelling with Grandmother Lane, along with Beleg.

He speaks English, not Beleriandic Mannish, due to a divine command placed on him when he was raised. He can if he gives it thought speak in the tongues he knew of old, but what comes first to mind is English.

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