The Lost Road and Other Writings by J. R. R. Tolkien Christopher Tolkien

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2001-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

§30 The Lembi were for the most part of the race of the Teleri, and the chief of these were the Elves of Beleriand, in the West of the Middle-earth. Most renowned among them was that Elf who first was named Sindo, the Grey, brother of Elwë, but is called now Thingol in the language of Doriath.

Commentary on Chapter 3 (a)

[The names of the divisions of the Elves underwent extremely complicated changes on the QS manuscript to reach the form in the typescript text printed here, since the same names were moved into different references and given different meanings. I do not refer to the original names in the notes that follow, since the individual changes would be extremely hard to follow if given piecemeal, but attempt an explanation in a general note at the end of this commentary.]

§ 18 The original text of the passage concerning the demons of Morgoth ran as follows:

... in the North Morgoth built his strength, and gathered his demon-broods about him, whom the Gnomes after knew as Balrogs: they had whips of flame. The Úvanimor he made, monsters of divers kinds and shapes; but the Orcs were not made until he had looked upon the Elves.

The term Úvanimor occurs in the Lost Tales, 1. 75 (‘monsters, giants, and ogres'), etc.; cf. Vanimor ‘the Beautiful’, p. 110. - On the question of when the Orcs first came into being see p. 148 and commentary on QS §62. It is said in The Fall of Númenor II (§I) that the Orcs are ‘mockeries of the creatures of Ilúvatar’ (cf. also The Lost Road, p. 65). In QS §62 the idea that the Orcs were mockeries of the Elves is found in the text as originally written.

§19 Elentári was changed on the typescript from Tinwerontar, but the alteration belongs to the earlier period, like Elerína > Tinwerína in §13; see p. 200. - Tintallë ‘the Kindler’ is found in The Silmarillion (p. 48) - and in The Lord of the Rings - but is there the name of Varda ‘out of the deeps of time’: the name ‘Queen of the Stars'(Elentári) was given in reference to the second star-making, at the time of the awakening of the Elves. This second star-making of The Silmarillion was still in QS, as in AV 2 (annal 1900), the first.

§20 The sentence beginning ‘but Oromë named them Eldar, “Star-folk” . . .’ is a footnote in the manuscript, a very early addition; in the typescript it was taken up into the text. See the note on names at the end of this commentary.

The whole paragraph, from the words ‘but not more fair’, was greatly extended and altered in the first rewriting to give the text printed. As originally written it was almost an exact repetition of Q (IV. 84):

. . . yet not more fair. Oromë it was that found them, dwelling by the star-lit mere, Kuiviénen, Water of Awakening, in the East of Middle-earth. Swiftly he rode to Valinor filled with the thought of their beauty.

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