This tells of Húrin's heroic stand at the
Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the fifth battle in the Wars of Beleriand. He
and
his house
stood as the rear-guard and allowed Turgon the time to escape back
to
Gondolin. The last man alive on the battlefield after his brother
Huor
was killed by an arrow in the eye, Húrin slew a thousand orcs (or
seventy trolls according to which story version) thus earning
himself
the name Húrin Trollslayer before he at last was captured. This
deed
is the most renowned of men among elves.
Due to his mother's (Hareth's) being the
daughter of
the chieftain of the house of Haleth and the son of the chieftain
of
the
house of Hador (Galdor or Gumlin, also two different versions) and
the
wife
of the daughter of the chieftain of the house of Beor, later named
the
house
of Húrin, and being the last survivor of all these families
(though not
by
much as the tale says) he is rightfully, at the end, chieftain of
all
three
houses of the Edain.