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Whereas in the Lay Beleg, who was not searching for Túrin when he was captured by the outlaw band, knew nothing of what had happened in the Thousand Caves (see III. 50), in S ‘Túrin released Beleg, and is told how Thingol had forgiven his deed long ago’. Blodrin is now again the son of Ban, not of Bor (see III. 52).

There is an interesting note in S that Túrin was taken alive to Angband ‘for Morgoth has begun to fear that he will escape his curse through his valour and the protection of Melian’. This idea is seen in the words of the Lay (III. 33) they haled unhappy Hurin’s offspring / lest he flee his fate, and goes back to the Tale of Turambar (II. 76):

Túrin was overborne and bound, for such was the will of Melko that he be brought to him alive; for behold, dwelling in the halls of Linwë [i.e. Tinwelint] about which had that fay Gwedheling the Queen woven much magic and mystery … Túrin had been lost out of his sight, and he feared lest he cheat the doom that was devised for him.

There is little else to note in this section beyond the new detail that the Orcs feared Taur-na-Fuin no less than Elves or Men, and only went that way when in haste, and the ancestor of the phrase ‘Gwindor saw them marching away over the steaming sands of Anfauglith’ (The Silmarillion p. 208) in ‘Flinding sees them marching over the steaming waste of Dor-na-Fauglith’ (cf. the Lay, III. 48: The dusty dunes of Dor-na-Fauglith / hissed and spouted). A very great deal is of course omitted in the synopsis.

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With the second paragraph of this section, ‘Túrin leads the Gnomes of Nargothrond to forsake their secrecy and hidden warfare’, S reaches the point where the Lay of the Children of Húrin stops, and certain advances made on the Tale of Turambar (II. 83 ff.) can be observed. The re-forging of Beleg’s sword for Túrin in Nargothrond now appears. In the Lay Flinding put the sword in the hollow of a tree after Beleg’s death (III. 56); as I noted (III. 86): ‘if the poem had gone further Túrin would have received his black sword in Nargothrond in gift from Orodreth, as happens in the Tale’. S thus shows a development from the plot implicit in the Lay. The bridging of Narog by Túrin’s counsel enters the story only as a pencilled marginal note. The extent of the victories and reconquest of territory by the Gnomes of Nargothrond at this time is made explicit, and the realm is much as described in The Silmarillion (p. 211):