The War of the Jewels by Tolkien J.R.R Christopher Tolkien

Author:Tolkien, J.R.R, Christopher Tolkien [Tolkien, J.R.R, Christopher Tolkien]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

An important element in this revised section remains to be mentioned: at this stage the myth of the creation of the Dwarves lacked the element of the Fathers being laid to sleep, by the command of Ilúvatar, after their first arising. This is apparent from the text as it stands; and the entry of this element will be seen in a moment.

The next text was the typescript of the LQ 1 series, which followed the manuscript text exactly (but the changes of Khuzûd > Khazad and Naugrim > Naug in §7 do not appear, nor in LQ 2), and after the first paragraph of the section Of the Edain (§9), where the revised version ends, followed the original text of QS, with the very few alterations that were made to it and which have been given on pp. 201-2.

The opening of ‘the words of Pengolod [> Pengoloð] concerning the Naugrim’ (§2) were struck out, long afterwards, on LQ 1, as far as ‘the desire of Aulë's heart to make things of his own after the pattern of the designs of Ilúvatar.’ Associated with the QS manuscript at this point are two pages headed ‘Of Aulë and the Dwarves', enclosed in a paper wrapper bearing the words ‘Amended Legend of Origin of Dwarves'; this begins as a good manuscript but breaks up into confusion and variant forms. A new text was written out fair in a late script of my father's, without title, and attached to LQ 1 as a replacement for the passage struck out; it begins thus, differing little from the rejected form:

The Naugrim are not of the Elf-kind, nor of Man-kind, nor yet of Melkor's breeding; and the Noldor, when they met them in Middle-earth, knew not whence they came, holding that they were alien to the Children, although in many ways they resembled them. But here in Valinor we have learned that in their beginning the Dwarves were made by Aulë, while Earth was still dark; for Aulë desired the coming of the Children so greatly, to have learners to whom he could teach his lore and his crafts, that he was unwilling to await the fulfilment of the designs of Ilúvatar.

The remainder of the text will be found in the published Silmarillion, Chapter 2 Of Aulë and Yavanna, pp. 43-4, to its end at ‘Then Aulë took the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves, and laid them to rest in far-sundered places; and he returned to Valinor, and waited while the long years lengthened.’ There are a number of insignificant editorial alterations in the published text, and among them one point should be mentioned: my father was uncertain whether to use ‘thou’ or ‘you’ in the converse of Aulë with Ilúvatar (in one case he changed ‘you may’ to ‘thou mayst’ and then reverted to ‘you may’). In the end he decided on ‘you’, whereas the published text has ‘thou’ throughout.

At the end of the insertion the chapter continues with ‘Since they came in the days of the power of Melkor .

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