Was there a ⚔️war between Turin and Brethil's men and the 🧌Orcs?

[Turin_Turambar]

But some of the woodmen still hunted the Orcs on their borders; and thus it was that as Túrin came thither he heard the sound of an affray. He hastened towards it, and coming warily through the trees he saw a small band of men surrounded by Orcs. They defended themselves desperately, with their backs to a knot of trees that grew apart in a glade; but the Orcs were in great number, and they had little hope of escape, unless help came. Therefore, out of sight in the underwood, Túrin made a great noise of stamping and crashing, and then he cried in a loud voice, as if leading many men: ‘Ha! Here we find them! Follow me all! Out now, and slay!’ At that many of the Orcs looked back in dismay, and then out came Túrin leaping, waving as if to men behind, and the edges of Gurthang flickered like flame in his hand. Too well was that blade known to the Orcs, and even before he sprang among them many scattered and fled. Then the woodmen ran to join him, and together they hunted their foes into the river: few came across. At last they halted on the bank, and Dorlas, leader of the woodmen, said: ‘You are swift in the hunt, lord; but your men are slow to follow.’

The above article is an excerpt from the book called Children of Hurin. When Turin came to Brethil and Brethil saved his men, did Turin and Brethil's men fight a war against the Orcs? They even named this battle on the internet as The Battle of the Bridge of Teiglin. It took place in 496 of the first age. Was there such a battle?

 

[Elthir]

Hmm. I'm a bit confused.

You don't seem to mean this particular fight, as you just quoted the passage that explains what happened. Anyway, after the part you quoted, Dorlas tells Túrin about an ambush of an Orc-host
(an Orc-host that had come up from Nargothrond, towards the Crossings of Teiglin), and how Finduilas was slain, and Túrin is then led to a hillock by the Crossings of Teiglin (that is, he is then led to the mound in which Finduilas was buried).

Or do you mean a different instance, after this, when Túrin was in Brethil?

 

[Hisoka Morrow]

Or maybe Turin engaged in the battles indirectly, I mean might these battles were skirmishes took places in Turin's commanded area yet being too late to get to the frontal combat?

 

[Elthir]

As Amdír already noted, the encounter described above is from The Children of Húrin, which, being
the long prose form of one of the Great Tales, will often include more detail than a chapter in the Silmarillion. Compare the above account, wherein, for example, we get the detail of Túrin fooling the orcs into thinking he has men with him, to the description of the same encounter in Quenta Silmarillion:

"Yet thus it was that passing southwards down Teiglin Túrin came upon some of the Men of Brethil that were surrounded by orcs; and he delivered them, for the Orcs fled from Gurthang." The Silmarillion, Of Túrin Turambar

"But thus it was that, passing southwards down Taiglin, Túrin came upon some of the Men of Brethil, and delivered them from Orcs that had entrapped them. For the Orcs fled from Gurthang." The Grey Annals, section 300, year 496.

Amdír wrote: "They even named this battle on the internet as The Battle of the Bridge of Teiglin"

So if Amdír's "this battle" intends to mean the encounter with the orcs that we've now both described (from different sources), then all I can say is: I'm not aware of Tolkien ever giving it such a name, and I'm not sure we are dealing with a bridge here in any case -- as the long prose version describes the orcs being hunted into the river.

And if the question is merely: did Tolkien himself write this description, as opposed to Christopher Tolkien inventing it or something. Then yes, JRRT himself wrote it. In an earlier version of "The End of the Narn", this fight was not present, but Tolkien added it.

Or that is, I can't find a reason to think that JRRT didn't write this section. And I think Christopher Tolkien would have taken great pains to edit the narrative as little as possible, if, for some reason
due to the editing process, it's not actually verbatim.

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