The History of Middle-earth Vol-5- The Lost Road J.R.R Tolkien by Tolkien J.R.R

Author:Tolkien, J.R.R. [J.R.R., Tolkien,]
Language: spa
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-12-27T14:12:35.716000+00:00

232 THE LOST ROAD Ch. 5 §§6o-61

§50 The words ‘though the Valar knew of the coming of Men that were to be’ are not at variance with the rewritten text of §20; for although it is said there that the coming of the Elves was not in the Music of the Ainur and was unknown to the Valar save Manwë, it is also told that at the awakening of the Elves Manwë

‘spoke to the Valar, revealing to them the mind of the Father; and he bade them to return now to their duty, which was to govern the world for the Children of Ilúvatar, when they should appear, each kindred in its appointed time.’

§54 ‘But Fëanor shut now his doors . . .’: the story of Morgoth's going to the stronghold of Finwë and Fëanor at this juncture moves further towards the final form (see AV 2, annal 2900).

§55 ‘Bay of Elfland’: in §§37-8, 44 the manuscript has ‘Bay of Elfland’ where the typescript has ‘Bay of Elvenhome’.

§58 ‘With his black spear’: ‘With his black sword’ Q (§4); cf. the story in the Lost Tales, I. 153.

5 OF THE FLIGHT OF THE NOLDOR

§60 This was the time of the Darkening of Valinor. In that day there stood before the gates of Valmar Gnomes that cried aloud, bearing evil tidings. For they told that Morgoth had fled northward, and with him went a thing before unseen that in the gathering night had seemed to be a spider of monstrous form. Suddenly they had fallen upon the treasury of Finwë. There Morgoth slew the King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first Elvish blood that stained the earth.

Many others he slew also, but Fëanor and his sons were not there. The Silmarils Morgoth took, and all the wealth of the jewels of the Noldor that were hoarded in that place. Great was the grief of Fëanor, both for his father and not less for the Silmarils, and bitterly he cursed the chance that had taken him on that evil day to Taniquetil, thinking in his folly that with his own hands and his sons he might have withstood the violence of Morgoth.

§61 Little is known of the paths of Morgoth after his dreadful deeds in Valinor.

But it is told that escaping from the hunt he came at last with Ungoliantë over the Grinding Ice and so into the northern regions of the Middle-earth once more.

Then Ungoliantë summoned him to give her the promised reward. The half of her pay had been the sap of the Trees. The other half was a full share in the plundered jewels. Morgoth yielded these, and she devoured them, and their light perished from the earth, but Ungoliantë grew yet darker and more huge and hideous in form. But Morgoth

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