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The great mound of the slain on Dor-na-Fauglith, the first trace of which appears in an outline for Gilfanon’s Tale (I. 241, 243), had been described in the Lay of the Children of Húrin (III. 58–9), where Flinding said to Túrin as they passed by it in the moonlight:
A! green that hill with grass fadeless
where sleep the swords of seven kindreds …
neath moon nor sun is it mounted ever
by Man nor Elf; not Morgoth’s host
ever dare for dread to delve therein.
The story of Húrin at the Battle of Unnumbered Tears – his holding of the rearguard with his men while Turgon escaped southwards, his capture, defiance of Morgoth, and torture – had already been told in the Tale of Turambar (II. 70–1) and in the Lay of the Children of Húrin (see III. 23–4, 102). In all these sources Morgoth’s concern with Húrin, his attempts to seduce him, and his great rage when defied, arise from his desire to find Turgon; but the element is still of course lacking in S that Húrin had previously visited Gondolin, which at this stage in the development of the legend did not exist as a Noldorin fastness until after the Battle. As the story evolved, this fact, known to Morgoth, gave still more ugency to his wish to take Húrin alive, and to use him against Turgon.
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It is immediately obvious that S was based on the second version of the Lay of the Children of Húrin, so far as it goes – which in relation to the whole narrative is not far: no further than the feast at which Túrin slew Orgof. This is already evident from the preceding portion of S, describing Morgoth’s treatment of Húrin in Angband; while in the present section the guardians of Túrin on the journey to Doriath bear the later names Halog and Mailgond (emended in the Lay to Mailrond, III. 119), not Halog and Gumlin.
It is not to be expected that the synopsis of the story in S should show any substantial alteration of that in the first version of the Lay; there is some development nonetheless. It is now explicit that the Men who in the Lay dwelt in Dorlómin and dealt unkindly with Húrin’s wife, and of whom I noted (III. 24) that ‘there is still no indication of who these men were or where they came from’, are now explicitly ‘faithless men who had deserted the Eldar in the Battle of Unnumbered Tears’, penned in Hithlum because Morgoth ‘desired to keep them from fellowship with Elves’. The question of whether Nienor was born before Túrin left Hithlum is now resolved: he had never seen her. For the uncertainty on this point in the Tale of Turambar see II. 131; in the Lay she was born before Túrin left (III. 9).