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I'm ready to put in my vote
Good work Findegil! This is entirely correct!!!
- Túrin and Hunthor cross the Taeglin.
- They climb halfe way up the cliff.
- They decied to stay were they are and cling to the trees of the cliff over night.
- Túrin dreams of clinging to a tree.
- When Glaurung moves in the morning they have to climb down first. This movement is implicit, since
- Túrin 'clambered along the water-edge to come beneath him [Glaurung]')
- Hunthor is slain by a stone, when they come under Glaurung
- Túrin climbs the cliff and slaughters Glaurung
I think there is no need to change any of it since we don't have any of Tolkien’s words to explicitly spell out their coming down. We should just leave it implicit. That’s what Tolkien did.
As far as Christopher saying they would surely come down instead of sleeping clinging to a tree, only Tolkien knows that and he is dead, not even his son knows. So why didn't they wait there over night hoping that where they were was where the dragon would show up? Then they moved down and back up when it was obvious the dragon was somewhere else.
What ever the reason for their staying and clinging doesn’t really matter, the text says that is what they did and since Tolkien’s words say that I vote we leave it alone with no changes.
Of course this is all just my opinion, but it is also my vote.
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