The peril of communing with them is, therefore, not only the peril of being deluded by fantasies or lies: there is peril also of destruction. 309, 344. $27 The greatest host came last, and they are named the Teleri, for they tarried on the road, and were not wholly of a mind to pass from the dusk to the light of Valinor. In §24 the spirits whom Manwë summoned to his aid 'went down into the Halls of Anar', and here again 'Anar' was later changed to 'Aman' in C; in C* the reading is somewhat different, and in this text 'Anar' was left to stand: Manwë said to the other spirits 'Let us go to the Halls of Anar where the Sun of the Little World is kindled'. And as is known well, the prime among these is Melkor. [struck out: unto] shining lakes, that were to all the land of the Valar as wells of water and of light. he said. Then Melkor departed in shame, for he was himself in peril, and he saw not his time yet for revenge; but his heart was black with anger. But Mandos was silent, and Ulmo's heart misgave him. Then Mandos adjudged her innocent, deeming that she had died under a necessity too great for her to withstand. And as much as I enjoyed it, I was still left wanting more, I was hoping to get more history of hobbits and Ents meshed in with the creation stories of Elves, Men, and Dwarves.
See p. 394.
not in Time or its Time, it can be contemplated with wonder and delight - especially by those who have taken part in its 'Tale'. But Melkor had already progressed some way towards becoming 'the Morgoth, a tyrant (or central tyranny and will), + his agents'. But the typescript text of AAm was emended (p. 69, $3) to 'Varda was Manwe's spouse from the beginning of Arda', which shows that some complex conception was present (though never definitively expressed) concerning the time of the 'union' of the great spirits. 17. 256 ff., and need not be set out here, or if lost from the final text are given in the notes to it.
They were the agents and vice-gerents of Eru (God). 1132. 'Then, lord,' said Andreth, and she looked up in wonder, 'you believe in this Hope?' I have brought thee an earnest of greater bounty to follow.' Is there not healing of grief in Aman?' But by the blood of Finwe! NOTES. said Vaire suddenly. $75 It came to pass that after the Teleri had dwelt for one hundred years of our reckoning upon the Lonely Isle their hearts were changed, and they were drawn towards the Light that flowed out from Aman.
The Valar therefore, when they became aware by the signs of evil that were seen upon Earth that Melkor had stolen back, sought in vain for him, though Tulcas and Orome went wide over Middle-earth even to the uttermost East. The first page of AAm is extant in two forms, both fine manuscripts, all but identical in text but differing in title and in the brief preamble. Then Morgoth sent forth a terrible cry that echoed in the mountains. We now learn that the Valian year of 1000 days was 'also due to,the Trees' nature, since after that time the Trees would put out a new branch. §11 But when they were come into the Void, Ilúvatar said to them: 'Behold your Music!'
the original name of the horn of Orome, Rombaras (p. 35, $34), and the Etymologies, V.384, stem ROM. He it was who was called Thingol in the language of Doriath. text II (p. 378), The March of the Eldar is through great Rains?
$49a Cf. This may be the best part out of the CHoME so far.
If Miriel, thy wife, will not return and releases thee, your union (4) is dissolved, and thou hast leave to take another wife.' In due time the betrothal was announced at a meeting of the two houses concerned,(6) and the betrothed gave silver rings one to another.
- and later Men.
It seemed like each one just had slightly different versions of Silmarillion bits with some commentary, and I got to the point where I'd rather just re-read the Silmarillion than detailed commentary and minute changes all over the place. But in any case, whether adumbrated in the Music or not, the End could be brought about by Eru at any time by intervention, so that it could not be certainly foreseen. Their outer sides were dark and smooth, without foothold or ledge,(2) and they fell in great precipices with faces hard as glass, and they rose up to towers with crowns of white ice. said Finrod. $19 Then Tulkas slept, being weary and content, and Melkor deemed that his hour had come. 'I did not know this,' said Andreth; 'and yet...' 'And yet at least ours is slow-footed, you would say?' Look and ye will find that each spirit of My Children retaineth in itself the full imprint and memory of its former house; and in its nakedness it is open to you, so that ye may clearly perceive all that is in it. This part of "The History of Middle-Earth" is the most complex hitherto. $15 'Black-heart!' And having completed this volume, I now have only two more to go in the History of Middle-Earth! $38 To these the Valar had given a land and dwellingplaces. Illuin Lamp of North = Helkar6 Ormal Lamp of South = Ringil6 Isle of Almaren in the Great Lake Valaróma = Horn of Oromë Eru = Ilúvatar Ëa = Universe of that which Is Not all these names were newly devised at this time, of course: thus Eru and Arda go back to my father's work on The Notion Club Papers and The Drowning of Anadûnê, as also does Aman (where however it was the Adûnaic name of Manwë). Thus far off in the dark places of Ea, to which he had retreated, Melkor was filled with new hatred, being jealous of the work of his peers, whom he desired to make subject to himself.
In the Old English versions of the 1930s Witan was not used, but Noldelfe, Noldielfe (see also IV.212). I speak of the former.' This part of "The History of Middle-Earth" is the most complex hitherto. THE ANNALS OF AMAN. $2 These spirits the Elves name the Valar, which is the Powers, and Men have often called them gods. Or trolls? 3000 = S.Y. Here with the Hiding of Valinor end The Annals of Aman. In The Drowning of Anadûnê, where it first appeared, it was the Adûnaic name of Manwë, but that meaning is surely not present here. A: 'Others guessed that they passed into the realm of Dark and the power of the Dark Lord (as they called him).'
Among the Noldor it may be seen that the making of bread is done mostly by women; and the making of the lembas is by ancient law reserved to them.
305 - 6, 23. the original description of Laurelin in the Lost Tales (1.72): 'all its boughs were hidden by long swaying clusters of gold flowers like a myriad hanging lamps of flame, and light spilled from the tips of these and splashed upon the ground with a sweet noise.' A place is made for them.' Here all weariness can find rest.' The new annals appear in the typescript as typed. 2. 'Beware lest you speak the unspeakable, wittingly or in ignorance, confounding Eru with the Enemy who would fain have you do so. For the houseless fea is solitary by nature, and turns only towards those with whom, maybe, it formed strong bonds of love in life. The Moon first rose after 5000 Valian Years had passed, which is said to be equal to 47901 Sun Years (this presupposes an equivalence of 9-5802; if the equivalence is 9-582 the number of Sun Years would be 47910, if 9-58 the number would be 47900). Behold! Thus it is that the cases in which remarriage of the Eldar can take place are rare, but rarer still are those who do this, even when it is permissible. Very explicit are the words of Manwe in his final address to the Valar before the proclamation of the Statute (p. 244): [The Elves] came into Arda Marred, and were destined to do so, and to endure the Marring, even though they came in their beginning from beyond Ea.... We may say, therefore, that the Elves are destined to know 'death' in their mode, being sent into a world which contains 'death', and having a form for which 'death' is possible. After the Valar, who before were the Ainur of the Great Song, entered into Ea, those who were the noblest among them and understood most of the mind of Iluvatar sought amid the immeasurable regions of the Beginning for that place where they should establish the Kingdom of Arda in time to come. 'Alas! :i VI. But ye, ye would then be at home, looking at all things intently, as your own. Even among the radiant flowers of the Tree-lit gardens of the gods they longed still to see the stars at times.
FM 1. Manwe answered: 'This we have done, for fear of Melcor, and with good intent, though not without misgiving. Thereafter one thousand and four hundred and five and ninety Valian Years (or fourteen thousand of our years and three hundred and twenty-two) followed during which the Light of the Trees shone in Valinor. For the doom of Mandos (the 'Statute of Finwe and Miriel') in this work see pp.
'True. But pencilled changes had been made to $$1-4 before this: $1 'nine chieftains' > 'seven chieftains'; Osse and Melkor were struck from the list.
$5 Finwe was greatly grieved, for the Noldor were in the youth of their days, but were still few in number, and he desired to bring forth many children into the bliss of Aman.
They were changeful in speech, for they had great love of words, and sought ever to find names more fit for all things that they knew or imagined.
In the hour of birth, or on some other occasion of moment, the mother might give a name to her child, indicating some dominant feature of its nature as perceived by her, or some foresight of its special fate.' $9 The shorter year of the Sun was so made (14) because of the greater speed of all growth, and likewise of all change and withering, that the Valar knew should come to pass after the death of the Trees. [And is not death for the Eldar an evil, that is a thing unnatural in Arda Unmarred, which must proceed therefore from the marring? $38 The reference to the site of Kuivienen is interesting. Ye could be clad even as I.' Arda they say will be destroyed by wicked Men (or the wickedness in Men); but healed through the goodness in Men. Cf. The grief of Luthien was so great that according to the Eldar it moved the pity of even Mandos the Unmoved. Have a care, my brethren, thinking not that the Shadow is gone for ever, though it is beaten down. Against it my father later pencilled: 'Transfer to A[nnals of] B[eleriand]'. (9) As for the begetting and bearing of children: a year passes between the begetting and the birth of an elf-child, so that the days of both are the same or nearly so, and it is the day of begetting that is remembered year by year. See V.298 - 9. They certainly held that all things or 'makings', that is constructed (however simply and incipiently) from basic matter, which they called erma,(14) were impermanent, within Ea. The Sindarin form of hroa and hrave (srawe) was rhaw: cf. (1) It might have been preferable to place Aman with the Athrabeth in Part Four; but I thought it unnecessary at such a late stage to embark on a major upheaval of the structure of the book, and so left it to stand separately here.