next day again they pressed on and so for many journeys more beside until at length weary and fain for rest they came one noon to a woodland stream , and this they followed for some way until , behold , they came to a place where it might be forded by reason of its shallowness and of the rocks that stood up in its course ; but on their right it dived in a great fall and fell into a chasm , and turambar pointing said : now are we nigh to home , for this is the fall of the silver bowl , '' but niniel not knowing why was filled with a dread and could not look upon the loveliness of that foaming water .