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The servants of Angband were driven out of all the land between Narog and Sirion eastward, and westward to the Nenning and the desolate Falas

(where however its northern border along the southern feet of the Shadowy Mountains is not mentioned; in S ‘their realm reaches to the sources of Narog’).

The later addition to the text of S, ‘even Glómund, who was at the Battle of Tears’, is to be related to the absence of any mention of the Dragon in S’s account of the battle (§11). As S was first written, the Dragon was named Glórung, a change from Glórund of the Lost Tales; the series was thus Glórund > Glórung > Glómund > Glaurung. In the Lay of Leithian Glómund replaces Glórund (III. 208–9).

The sentence ‘Flinding wounded refuses Túrin’s succour and dies reproaching him’ shows the later form of the story, as in The Silmarillion pp. 212–13; for discussion of the substantial change from the Tale see II. 124. It is said in S that Túrin forsook Finduilas ‘against his heart (which if he had obeyed his uttermost fate would not have befallen him)’, and this is no doubt to be related to the passage in the Tale (II. 87):

And truly is it said: ‘Forsake not for anything thy friends – nor believe those who counsel thee to do so’ – for of his abandoning of Failivrin in danger that he himself could see came the very direst evil upon him and all he loved.

For discussion of this see II. 125.

Of Túrin’s return to Hithlum there is little to note, for the synopsis is here very compressed; and I have earlier discussed fully the relationship between the Tale and the later story (II. 126–7). The Woodmen with whom Túrin lives after his flight from Hithlum are now given a more definite location ‘east of Narog’ (see II. 140–1). In S it is made clear that Túrin did not join himself to a people already existing, but ‘gathered a new people’. This is in contradiction, strangely enough, both to the Tale (II. 91, 102), where they had a leader (Bethos) when Túrin joined them, and to the later story. Túrin now takes the name Turambar at this point in the narrative, not as in the Tale before the Dragon outside the caves of the Rodothlim (II. 86, 125).