You were very close, Mithalwen, and I were willing to let you have some time to figure it out, but my fingertips itch to give an answer now that more than a week is gone since last try
So, the person spoken to indeed was Túrin, but t'was Sador who quoteth, and thus he spake unto young one, explaining his damaged limb:
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But alas! my love of battle was sated, for I had seen spilled blood and wounds enough; and I got leave to come back to the woods that I yearned for. And there I got my hurt; for a man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it
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