In The Silmarillion, the story mainly deals with the war of the elves against Morgoth. Little of men is mentioned, save a few scattered battles, and of course The Akallabeth. But some men marched with the elves, and one of those was the mighty Hurin.
His strength seemed to surpass even the mightiest of the Numenorians, including Elendil and Aragorn. Perhaps the most heroic passage in The Silmarillion is Hurin standing alone in the sunset, with his army piled around him. Yet he fights on. He casts down his shield and weilds his axe two-handed, and began to smite the troll-guards of Gothmog as though they were nothing but Orcs. At last he was captured by Gothmog himself, and brought before the throne of Morgoth.
But he did not waver. For fourty years he was imprisoned, until he was at last released into a much changed Middle-Earth. He slew Mim the dwarf to take back his house. He was one of the only men to set foot inside the hidden city of Gondolin, though he was the one who gave it up accidentally before Morgoth. He was eventually slain, and was not avenged until the War of Wrath when the Valar came to Middle-Earth and crushed Morgoth. Aure Entuluva! indeed.
