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The grace of Thingol will not stretch to receive these companions of my fall, I think; but I will not part with them now, if they do not wish to part with me, &c.

The traitor, who betrayed the band to the Orcs, now first appears. At first he is called Bauglir both in A and in B as originally typed; and it might be thought that the name had much too obviously an evil significance. The explanation is quite clearly, however, that Bauglir became Blodrin at the same time as Bauglir replaced Belcha as a name of Morgoth. (By the time my father reached line 990 Blodrin is the name as first written in both A and B; while similarly at line 1055 Bauglir is Morgoth’s name, not Belcha, both in A and B as first written.) The change of Ban (father of Blodrin) to Bor was passing; he is Ban in the 1926 ‘Sketch of the Mythology’, and so remained until, much later, he disappeared.

Blodrin’s origin is interesting:

trapped as a child

he was dragged by the Dwarves to their deep mansions,

and in Nogrod nurtured, and in nought was like,

spite blood and birth, to the blissful Elves.

(666–9)

Thus Blodrin’s evil nature is explicitly ascribed to the influence of the bearded Dwarves / of troth unmindful (1148–9); and Blodrin follows Ufedhin of the Tale of the Nauglafring as an example of the sinister effect of Elvish association with Dwarves – not altogether absent in the tale of Eöl and Maeglin as it appears in The Silmarillion. Though the nature – and name – of the traitor in Túrin’s band went through Protean mutations afterwards, it is not inconceivable that recollection of the Dwarvish element in Blodrin’s history played some part in the emergence of Mîm in this rôle. On the early hostile view of the Dwarves see II. 247. The words of the poem just cited arise from the ‘betrayal’ of Flinding by his dwarvish knife, which slipped from its sheath; so later, in the Lay of Leithian, when Beren attempted to cut a second Silmaril from the Iron Crown (lines 4160–2)

The dwarvish steel of cunning blade