Galdor’s wife was of the Haladin and their sons, Húrin and Huor, were sent away to Brethil when they were lost and spent time with Turgon in Gondolin. Galdor himself was slain at Eithel Sirion in 462, thus Húrin became the third Lord of Dor-lómin.
During Húrin’s tenure as lord, Hithlum was largely made safe, owing largely to the great reclamation of lost lands by the Union of Maedhros of which the men and elves of Hithlum were participants. This gathered steam until the plans were made for another assault on Morgoth in Angband- the battle that would become known as Nirnaeth Arnoediad. Húrin mustered all the men that Dor-lómin could provide to supplement Fingon’s host in the west. The result was devastating for the House of Hador and their remnant covered the retreat of Turgon. They refused to leave and heroically drew up their lines behind Rivil, killing hundreds of Orcs and Trolls before their entire host killed to a man in a final last stand.
Hithlum, defenceless and beaten was thus taken by the treacherous Swarthy Men who had been so instrumental in Morgoth’s victory without any notable resistance of what remained of the people of the House of Hador. From this point the lives of the people of Hador became one of marginal slavery. The House of Hador fared badly under the Incomers; brutally suppressed, their lands were taken and their women forced into marriage with the new despot-lords of Hithlum. The nobility of the House went into hiding or killed trying to flee. Húrin’s son and heir Túrin was too young to lead and so was sent away to Doriath for his safety by his mother and Huor’s son Tuor was only born the year of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad and so was similarly guarded; fostered by the grey elves that still inhabited the mountains of Mithrim.
Húrin Thalion, the greatest warrior of Men in the First Age, was the eldest son of Galdor and Hareth, older brother of Huor and Lord of Dor-lómin. He wedded Morwen, a daughter of Baragund of the House of Bëor. Together they had three children: Túrin, Lalaith and Nienor. In F.A. 472 Húrin was captured by Morgoth at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad and he and his kin were cursed by the Dark Lord. The curse led to some of the greatest successes and tragedies of the First Age, which are told in the tale called Narn i Chîn Húrin.
But suddenly her eyes looked into his, and then
Hurin knew her; for though they were wild now and full of fear, a light still gleamed in
them hard to endure: the elven-light that long ago had earned her her name, Eledhwen,
proudest of mortal women in the days of old.
‘Eledhwen! Eledhwen!’ Hurin cried; and she rose and stumbled forward, and he caught
her in his arms.
‘You come at last,’ she said. ‘I have waited too long.’
‚It was a dark road. I have come as I could,’ he answered.
‚But you are late,’ she said, ‚too late. They are lost.’
‚I know,’ he said. ‚But you are not.’
Almost,’ she said. ‚I am spent utterly. I shall go with the sun. They are lost.’ She clutched
at his cloak. ‚Little time is left,’ she said. ‚If you know, tell me! How did she find him?’
But Hurin did not answer, and he sat beside the stone with Morwen in his arms; and they
did not speak again. The sun went down, and Morwen sighed and clasped his hand and
was still; and Hurin knew that she had died.
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