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379-80). This is perhaps to be related to the statement in The Tale of Years (pp. 343-4), 'The foremost of the Eldar reach the coastlands of Middle-earth and that country which was after named Eglador' - to which however is added the puzzling phrase 'Thereof Beleriand was the larger part'.

(15) E 4 to D 5. Woods of Nuath: see the later Tale of Tuor in Unfinished Tales, p. 36 and note 14.

(16) E 5. The name Tumhalad appears to be written twice, above and below the two short parallel lines shown. See pp. 139-40, commentary on GA $275.

(17) E 5-6. Talath Dirnen was first written Dalath Dirnen; see p. 228, $28.

(18) E 6 to F 6. South of the Crossings of Taiglin it is difficult to be sure, among various incomplete dotted lines, what was the course of the road to Nargothrond, but my father seems subsequently to have entered it as a straight line of short dashes as shown.

(19) E 6-7. From Ephel Brandir various lines, which I cannot certainly interpret and have not marked on the map, run west towards the Crossings of Taiglin. Possibly one line marks the road to the Crossings and another the course of Celebros. -

Tavrobel on the map as originally lettered was struck out and replaced by Bar Haleth (also struck out), but no precise site is indicated. For Bar Haleth see p. 157, commentary on GA $324.

(20) E 7. Folk of Haleth clearly belongs to the first making of the map and should have been entered on the redrawing (V.408).

(21) F 2. The name Forfalas ('North Falas') seems not to occur elsewhere; similarly with Harfalas ('South Falas'), Section 3, H 4.

(22) F 4. The original name R.Eglor was struck out and replaced by Eglahir. Later the name Nenning was written in, but Eglahir was not struck out. See p. 117, commentary on GA $85.

(23) F 5. For the dotted line on this square see $59 below.

(24) F 6. The word 'or' refers to the name Methiriad, Section 3, G 6.

(25) F 6. For the change of date from 195 to 495 see V.139, 407.

(26) F 6-7. Moors of the Neweglu: among the Narn papers there are many texts concerned with the story of Mim, and in these are found an extraordinary array of names for the Petty-dwarves: Neweg, Neweglin; Niwennog; Naug-neben, Neben-naug; Nebinnog, Nibennog, Nibinnogrim, Nibin-noeg; Nognith.

The name on the map, Neweglu, does not occur in the Narn papers.

(27) F 7. The name of an isolated hill Carabel stands at the point where Amon Rudh (the abode of Mim) is shown on my map accompanying The Silmarillion. The name of the hill was changed many times: Amon Garabel > Carabel; Amon Carab (translated 'Hill of the Hat'); Amon Nardol and Nardol (cf.

the beacon-hill Nardol in Anorien); Amon Rhug 'the Bald Hill'; and Amon Rudh of the same meaning.

(28) F 7. For Nivrim see QS $110 (V.261).

2. North-eastern section (p. 183).

(29) B 8. (Fen) of Serech: see Section 1, $3.

(30) B 12 to A 13. read (71) Dor-na-Daerachas: the number 71

oddly but certainly refers to the year 1971; the addition is very late, since it does not appear on the photocopy of the map used by my father c.1970 (see p. 330 and note 1, also p. 191, after $74).

(31) B 12-13. Lothland: see p. 128, commentary on GA $$173 - 4.

(32) C 9. The mountain named Foen: in a philological fragment of uncertain date it is stated that Dorthonion 'was called also Taur-na-Foen, the Forest of the Foen, for that was the name (which signifies "Long Sight") of the high mountain in the midst of that region.'

(33) C 9-10. Drun: cf. the later form of the Lay of Leithian, III.344, line 520: 'ambush in Ladros, fire in Drun' (see commentary, III. 350).

(34) C 10-11. For mentions of Ladros see p. 224 and $33 above; also Unfinished Tales p. 70, where Turin is named 'heir of Dor-lomin and Ladros'.

(35) C 11. On the left side of the square my father wrote Orodreth, subsequently striking it out. This placing of Orodreth's territory goes back to the old story that of the sons of Finrod (Finarfin) on Dorthonion 'easternmost dwelt Orodreth, nigh-est to his friends the sons of Feanor' (AB 1, IV.330).

(36) C 12. Maedros was corrected from Maidros, so also on D 12; in the original Marches of Maidros the name was corrected to Maedros.

(37) D 8. bard is the second element of Dimbard (see Section 1, D 7).

The name is certainly written thus, with final -d, but elsewhere the form is always Dimbar.

(38) D 8-9, E 9-10. The line of dots marked List Melian was struck out for some distance east of the Brithiach, as shown (see Section 1, D 7), and its discontinuous extension between Esgalduin and Aros was put in later and more roughly. On the significance of these dotted lines see p. 333, and for the name List Melian (the Girdle of Melian) see pp. 223, 228.

(39) D 9. Eryd Orgorath seems to be written so, and above it apparently Gorgorath, but the forms are very hard to make OUT.

(40) D 9. Goroth[ ]ess: the illegible letter in this otherwise totally unknown name (which was struck through) might be r.

(41) D 9. For the bridge of Esgalduin marked on the published map (and named Iant Iaur) in the position equivalent to the S.E.

corner of D 9 see pp. 332 - 3.

(42) D 10. For Dor Dinen see pp. 194, 333.

(43) D 10. The Ford over Aros can be shown to be a very late addition to the map: see p. 338, note 6.

(44) D 11. Pass of Aglon(d: for the forms Aglon and Aglond see p. 338, note 3.

(45) D 14. Mt. Rerir: in QS $114 (V.263) it is said that Greater Gelion came from Mount Rerir (the first occurrence of the name); about it were 'many lesser heights' ($118), and on its western slopes was built a Noldorin fortress ($142). The map was made before the emergence of Mount Rerir, and my father contented himself with writing the name against the not specially conspicuous mountain near the end of the line marking Greater Gelion.

(46) E 8 to D 8. The name R. Mindeb was written on the map at its making but was inadvertently omitted from my redrawing (V.409).

(47) E 11. Himlad: on the meaning of the name, and the reason for it, see p. 332 and note 4.

(48) E 11. Gladuial: I have not found this name anywhere else.

(49) E 11. Radrim: the line directing the name to the wooded land between Aros and Celon is faintly pencilled on the map.

Radrim does not occur in any narrative text, but is found in the Etymologies (V.382-3, stems am and RI): Radhrim East-march (part of Doriath)'.

(50) E 12-13, F 13. The words 'north road of Dwarves' are very faint and blurred, but this seems to be the only possible interpretation. On the extremely puzzling question of the Dwarf-roads in East Beleriand see pp. 334-6.

(51) E 12. A word faintly pencilled across the upper part of this square could be interpreted as 'Marshes'.

(52) F 9. Eglador pencilled under Doriath: see $14 above.

(53) F 10. Arthorien: see pp. 112-13, commentary on GA $38; and the next entry.

(54) F 10. Garthurian (which could also be read as Garthurien): in the text cited at $32 above it is said that 'the Noldor often used the name Arthurien for Doriath, though this is but an alteration of the Sindarin Garthurian "hidden realm".'

(55) F 11. Estoland: the form is clear, but at all other occurrences of the name it is Estolad.

3. South-western section (p. 184).

(56) G 2. Cape Andras is referred to in Quendi and Eldar, p. 379.

Cf. Andrast 'Long Cape' in the extreme west of Gondor (Index to Unfinished Tales).

(57) G 3 to H 3. The names Eglamar (as applied here) and Emyn Eglain (or Hills of Eglamar) are not found in any narrative text. Eglamar is one of the oldest names in my father's legendarium: together with Eldamar of the same meaning,

'Elf-home', it referred to the land of the Elves in Valinor, Egla being 'the Gnome name of the Eldar who dwelt in Kor' (see 1.251, II.338; also the Etymologies, V.356, stem ELED). The old names Eglamar, Eglador, Eglorest (> Eglarest), not abandoned, were afterwards related to the name by which the Sindar called themselves, Eglath 'the Forsaken People' (see X.85, 164). In Quendi and Eldar (p. 365) the etymology of Eglain, Egladhrim is given - though it is not the only one that my father advanced; and later in that essay (pp. 379-80) it is explained why these names were found in the Falas among the people of Cirdan. (I cannot account for the application of the name Eglamar to Arthorien, the small land in the S.E. of Doriath between Aros and Celon, in the note cited on p. 112, commentary on GA $38.)

(58) G 4. The name Eglorest of the map as originally made was not emended to the later form Eglarest.

(59) G 5-6, H 5-6. The extent of the Taur-na-Faroth (or High Faroth) is marked out by the dotted line (extending somewhat north of Nargothrond on Section 1, F 5) as a very large region, somewhat in the shape of a footprint: cf. the representation of the Hills of the Hunters on the first Silmarillion map (Vol.IV, between pp. 220 and 221). The dots outlining the more southerly part were cancelled, and rough lines (not represented in the redrawing) across G 5 (from left-centre to bottom-right) suggest a reduction in the extent of the highlands. See further $65 below.

(60) G 5. The name Ingwil was not corrected to the later form Ringwil (see p. 197, $112).

(61) G 6. I have not found the name Methiriad of 'Mid-Beleriand'

elsewhere.

(62) H 2. Barad Nimras replaced Tower of Tindabel (jumping the intervening name Ingildon): see p. 197, $120.

(63) H 3. The coastline south-west of Eglarest was extended into a small cape named Ras Mewrim, a name not found elsewhere; in Quendi and Eldar (pp. 379 - 80) it is named Bar-in-Myl

'Home of the Gulls'.

(64) H4. Harfalas: see $21 above.

(65) J 5-7, K 5-6. I have mentioned under $59 above that the dotted line marking the extent of the Taur-na-Faroth was later cancelled in its southern part; but the high country of Arvernien (clearly added to the map after the dotted line) is shown extending by a narrow neck to join the southern extremity of the Taur-na-Faroth as originally indicated: i.e., there is a great range of hills extending from near the southern coast, through this 'neck', to a little north of Nargothrond.

(66) K 5-6. The name Earendil on K 6, though separated, very probably belongs with Ship-havens on K 5. Cf. the beginning of Bilbo's song at Rivendell:

Earendil was a mariner

that tarried in Arvernien;

he built a boat of timber felled

in Nimbrethil to journey in ...

4. South-eastern section (p. 185).

(67) G 8-9, H 8-11. The Andram is marked only as a faint pencilled line of small curves, more vague and unclear than in my redrawing.

(68) G 11-13. A vaguely marked line of dashes (not represented on the redrawing) runs westward from just above Sarn Athrad on G 13: this perhaps indicates the course of the Dwarf-road after the passage of Gelion. This line bends gently north-west across G 12 and leaves G 11 at the top left corner, possibly reappearing on Section 2, F 10, where (if this is correct) it reached Aros just below the inflow of Celon. See p. 334.

(69) G 14. The correction of Rathlorion to Rathloriel was an early change (V.407). A name beneath, hastily pencilled, is very probably Rathmalad (cf. the name Rathmallen of this river in The Tale of Years, p. 353).

(70) H 11-12. Rhamdal: this spelling is found in QS $142 (beside Ramdal in $113, adopted in The Silmarillion) and in the Etymologies, V.390, stem TAL; cf. ibid. V.382, stem RAMBA,

'Noldorin rhamb, rham'.

(71) K 10-11. The scribbled named South Beleriand was struck out.

(72) K 9-11, L 9-11. For the name Taur-im-Duinath of the great forested region between Gelion and Sirion in the published Silmarillion and map see p. 193, $108.

(73) L 14-15. Tol Galen: the divided course of the river Adurant (whence its name, according to the Etymologies, V.349, stem AT(AT)) enclosing the isle of Tol Galen is shown in two forms.

The less extensive division was drawn in ink (it seems that the oblong shape itself represents the island, in which case the area between it and the two streams is perhaps to be taken as very low-lying land or marsh); the much larger division, in which the northern stream leaves the other much further to the east and rejoins it much further to the west, was entered in pencil, together with the name. The name Tol Galen was written a third time (again in pencil) across the upper part of square M 14.

(74) L 14-15. The mountains on these squares, extending northward onto K 15, were pencilled in very rapidly, and those to the north of Tol Galen were possibly cancelled.

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I turn now to the development of the chapter Of Beleriand and its Realms. The great majority of the changes made to the text of QS

(Chapter 9, V258-66, $$105-21) are found in the early typescript LQ 1, but some are not, and appear only in LQ 2: these cases are noticed in the account that follows. I do not record the changes Melko > Melkor, Helkarakse > Helkaraxe, Bladorion > Ard-galen, Eglorest > Eglarest.

$105. After the words 'in the ancient days' at the end of the first sentence the following footnote was added to QS. As usual, the typist of LQ 1 took up the footnote into the text, but it appears as a footnote in LQ 2, whose typist was again working directly from the manuscript.

These matters, which are not in the Pennas of Pengolod, I have added and taken from the Dorgannas laur (the account of the shapes of the lands of old that Torhir Ifant made and is kept in Eressea), that those who will may understand more clearly, maybe, what is later said of their princes and their wars: quoth AElfwine.