Biggest Blunder in Middle Earth History
Throught the history of ME, there have been many blunders. What's the biggest in your opinion? Mine is the Union of Maedhros. It was a huge failure and many elves, dwarves and men died for no reason.
Some other blunders to concider are: the failure of the Valar to capture Sauron, the Valar's release of Melkor, the attack on Aman by the Numenoreans, ect
Blunder?
In my opinion, the Union of Maedhros was not a blunder - it was a miscalculation, and without the treachery of Men the field wouldn't have been lost ("Yet neither by Wolf, nor by Balrog, nor by Dragon, would Morgoth have achieved his end, but for the treachery of Men"😉 - Maedhros was a little too hasty and too obvious in his planning, but I don't think it was his mistake that it failed.
Probably the attack by the Númenóreans was necessary...
In my opinion, the biggest blunders were all connected to the Silmarilli - the fact that Feanor refused to give them to the Valar, later the Kinslaying of Alqualonde, the Oath of Feanor's Sons, the Shipburning of Losgar, the Kinslaying of the Havens of Sirion and the Kinslaying of Doriath.
Another [practically inevitable] blunder was Maeglin's treachery of Gondolin -
the worst thing about blunders in the History of Arda is that they are all nearly inevitable.
I also think it was a blunder that it was refused to Arvedui to take the Lordship over Gondor and Arnor, probably a lot of things would have changed otherwise, but who knows if it would really have been positive after all.
Ah, yea, and nearly everything Túrin did was a blunder, all of his decisions led him towards the fatal end...
Originally posted by Discos
ah bloody Maeglin, what a fool! - little grass
"Desire for Idril and hatred for Tuor led Maeglin the easier to his treachery"
"And he abode in the halls of the King with smiling face and evil in his heart"
speaking of Turin, a blunder of him marrying his own sister Niniel 😬
Blunder? Hmm, would many things have been different if he hadn't done so? Probably only the end of their lives
Maybe it was a blunder, but not Túrin's...
Dragons generally like going hands in hands with blunders and provokated errors ~
Túrin probably also should have tried to rescue Finduilas instead of searching for his sister... would have avoided loads of problems... stupid curse of Morgoth 🙁
Lord Túrin, son of Húrin, Why did you return?
"She looked to find her son there awaiting here. But if you are he, then I fear that all has gone awry."
Then Túrin laughed bitterly. "Awry, Awry?", he cried. "Yes, ever awry, as crooked as Morgoth!" And suddenly a black wrath shook him; for his eyes were opened, and the spell of Glaurung loosed its last threads, and he knew the lies with which he had been cheated. "Have I been cozened, that I might come and die here dishonoured, who might at least have ended valiantly before the doors of Nargothrond?" And out of the night about the hall it seemed to him that he heard the cries of Finduilas.
The general reason for blunders is pride --- playing a role in nearly all tragic stories, be it the unwillingness to give up something or just the arrogance not to see the own mistakes
Therefore the voice of Húrin, or the memory of his voice, was denied, and the first strand of the fate of Túrin was woven.
... same goes for selfishness
Whom shall we serve, if not ourselves? Whom shall we love, when all hate us?