now those afar thought that this was the fearsome noise of battle betwixt the seven , turambar and his comrades , '' and little they hoped ever to see any of them return , and niniel 's heart died within her at the sounds ; but below in the ravine those three cravens who had watched turambar from afar fled now in terrror back towards the fall , and turambar clung nigh to the lip of the chasm white and trembling , for he was spent .