In the year I 469, fourteen years had passed since Morgoth broke the Siege of Angband in the Dagor Bragollach, and the Eldar had begun to plan their revenge. In that year, a great wind came out of the North that carried with it sickness and disease. This Evil Breath swept across the lands north of Beleriand that bordered Anfauglith, bringing sickness and death to Mortal Men.¹

In Dor-lómin, the household of Húrin was struck by the Evil Breath, and Húrin's young son Túrin and his daughter Lalaith were both consumed by the fever that came with it. Túrin survived, but Lalaith (then only three years old) was lost to it; this was the first of many tragedies that would befall the family of Húrin, and accompany Túrin throughout his life.