but later some came timidly and bore him away and laid him in a place nigh , and raised a great mound over him , and thereafter some drew a great rock there with a smooth face , and on it were cut strange signs such as turambar himself had taught them in dead days , bringing that knowledge from the caves of the rodothlim , and that writing said : turambar slayer of glorund the worm who also was turin mormakil son of urin of the woods and beneath that was carven the word `` niniel '' ( or child of tears ) ; but she was not there , nor where the waters have laid her fair form doth any man know .