now tuor did this , though his valour leapt to the noise of war , that he might take farewell of idril and earendel ; and speed them with a bodyguard down the secret way ere he returned himself to the battle throng to die if must be : but he found a press of the mole-folk about his door , and these were the grimmest and least good-hearted of folk that meglin might get in that city .