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From Wikipedia:
In Tolkien's The Silmarillion,
Nienor, also called Níniel "Tear-Maiden", was Húrin and Morwen's third
child, the sister of Túrin. She was born in Hithlum in the year of Nirnaeth
Arnoediad. After this battle, the Easterlings settled in the land and oppressed
the people of Hador.
Nienor remained in Hithlum with her mother Morwen for twenty years, subsequently
moving to Doriath in hopes of finding Túrin, who has been sent there earlier.
After she and her mother heard a rumour that the mysterious Mormegil of
Nargothrond was actually Túrin, they set out with a company of Elves for that
place. Unfortunately, the dragon Glaurung had just sacked that elven city, and,
sensing their approach, he caused a cloud of foul vapor to rise from the Narog.
The party's horses panicked and Nienor was separated, at which point the worm
Glaurung used his famous abilities to put her in a state of total amnesia.
Eventually, the amnesiac woman was found by Mablung, who intended to take her
back to Doriath but they were attacked by orcs while attempting to cross the
Taeglin. In confusion and terror, Nienor ran away, tore off her clothes and ran
naked through the forest until she fainted.
Her brother Túrin found her, naked and terrified, at Haudh-en-Elleth, lying on
the grave of his dead lover Finduilas. Because Nienor did not remember her
identity and Túrin did not know he had a living sister, he named her Níniel
"Tear-Maiden" and brought her to safety at Brethil.
The men of Brethil returned to Ephel
Brandir soon after. When "Níniel" fell sick, Brandir tended to her, secretly
falling in love. However, "Níniel" loved Túrin more, and after three years, they
were wed. By the next spring, she was halfway through her first pregnancy.
It was then that rumours of Glaurung's
approach reached Túrin, who went out to slay him. Unfortunately, the dragon
envenomated him even as he dealt the worm a mortal blow, and Túrin fell into a
swoon.
At this unfortunate moment, "Níniel", who feared for her husband's life, went
out and found him apparently dead. Glaurung then set off his hidden weapon
against Túrin - he removed Nienor's amnesia with his last words. Realising she
had married her own brother and was carrying his unborn child, she committed
suicide by throwing herself into the ravine at Cabed-en-Aras. Her death sparked
a series of events culminating in his suicide, thus fulfilling Glaurung's
vengeance.
The tragedy of Túrin and Nienor's love and suicide appear to have been carefully
scripted by the dragon Glaurung - this was his most dangerous weapon and the
coincidences are too great to be accidental. Nienor arrived, practically
gift-wrapped, naked and amnesiac on the grave of Túrin's love, who was
tragically murdered; the resonances of this incident are too specific to be
accidental.