Turin_Turambar
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it says in my language middle earth wiki that turgon is one of the dagor aglareb commanders.Is it true? Was there in the turgon dagor aglareb and battle of lammoth?

Does it say in the book that turgon fought in these battles? i wondered.I think so. The Noldor were divided into the Fëanorians, who sailed to Middle-earth in the stolen ships of the Teleri, and the followers of Fingolfin, who had to hoof it over the Grinding Ice between Araman and Middle-earth. I don’t recall that the majority of the folk of Fingolfin and Finarfin had begun to spread out across Beleriand before then(, and I haven’t bothered to double-check). (Finarfin stayed behind in Eldamar with a tithe of the Noldor. His children and most of his people followed his brother Fingolfin.)
so what are there for dagor aglareb?For possible future reference, the following description is all we have so far concerning the Battle of the Lammoth. And in case anyone is wondering, this battle does not appear in the 1977 Silmarillion. It hails from a late text (1968 or later, and note the spelling of Ork) titled The Shibboleth of Feanor.
"Arakáno was the tallest of the brothers and the most impetuous, but his name was never changed to Sindarin form, for he perished in the first battle of Fingolfin's host with the Orks, the batttle of the Lammoth ( . . . ).*
* "When the onset of the Orks caught the host at unawares as they marched southwards and the ranks of the Eldar were giving way, he sprang forward and hewed a path through the foes, daunted by his stature and the terrible light of his eyes, till he came to the Ork-captain and felled him. Then though he himself was surrounded and slain, the Orks were dismayed, and the Noldor pursued them with slaughter." JRRT, The Peoples of Middle-Earth
Again, that's all there is, published so far anyway.
Or could Fingofin assign Turgon in the other zone, after all, Lammoth seemed to be just a skirmish instead of a grand battle, or Turgon was assigned into the dispatch to reinforce Argom?
I have a question on this subject.Did turgon and host of turgon follow fingolfin in exile? The fact that there are so few details about the battle of lammoth keeps me asking questions.😌For possible future reference, the following description is all we have so far concerning the Battle of the Lammoth. And in case anyone is wondering, this battle does not appear in the 1977 Silmarillion. It hails from a late text (1968 or later, and note the spelling of Ork) titled The Shibboleth of Feanor.
"Arakáno was the tallest of the brothers and the most impetuous, but his name was never changed to Sindarin form, for he perished in the first battle of Fingolfin's host with the Orks, the batttle of the Lammoth ( . . . ).*
* "When the onset of the Orks caught the host at unawares as they marched southwards and the ranks of the Eldar were giving way, he sprang forward and hewed a path through the foes, daunted by his stature and the terrible light of his eyes, till he came to the Ork-captain and felled him. Then though he himself was surrounded and slain, the Orks were dismayed, and the Noldor pursued them with slaughter." JRRT, The Peoples of Middle-Earth
Again, that's all there is, published so far anyway.
Yes.
We can answer plenty of questions about the Elder Days with a simple yes or no [cough].
Considering much of JRRT's post-LoTR writing, I have serious doubts at his hesitancy at disruption ..."Of course it is not to be thought that my father actually intended such a catastrophic disruption of the narrative structure as this would bring about,