it is said ( and # 8224 ; ) that when turin and his companions set out from nen girith on the fateful evening they did not go straight towards the dragon , lying on the further side of the ravine , but took first the path towards the crossings of teiglin ; and 'then , before they came so far , they turned southward by a narrow track ' and went through the woods above the river towards cabed-en-aras .