Tuor escapes the Easterlings

'But after three years of thraldom Tuor saw at last his chance of escape. He was come now almost to his full stature, taller and swifter than any of the Easterlings; and being sent with other thralls on an errand of labour into the woods he turned suddenly on the guards and slew them with an axe, and fled into the hills. The Easterlings hunted him with dogs, but without avail; for wellnigh all the hounds of Lorgan were his friends, and if they came up with him they would fawn upon him, and then run homeward at his command.'

JRR Tolkien: Unfinished Tales: Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin

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