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

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J. R. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007348220
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2019-10-16T00:00:00+00:00

§60Here first appears the story that Fëanor went to the festival, of which there is no suggestion in Q (IV. 92).

§62Q has ‘To his aid came the Orcs and Balrogs that lived yet in the lowest places of Angband’, but Orcs are absent here in QS. Here and again in §105 Utumno is an early change from Utumna; see the commentary on §12. That the slightly ambiguous sentence ‘he built anew …’ means that he built Angband on the ruins of Utumno is seen from §105: ‘Melko coming back into Middle-earth made the endless dungeons of Angband, the hells of iron, where of old Utumno had been.’ See IV. 259–60.

In Q the passage about Morgoth’s making of the Orcs, precursor of this in QS, is placed earlier (IV. 82), before the making of the stars and the awakening of the Elves; at the corresponding place in QS (§18) it is said that ‘the Orcs were not made until he had looked upon the Elves.’ In Q, at the place (IV. 93) corresponding to the present passage in QS, it is said that ‘countless became the number of the hosts of his Orcs and demons’ – i.e. the Orcs were already in existence before Morgoth’s return (and so could come to his aid when they heard his cry); but there is a direction in Q at this point (IV. 93 note 8) to bring in the making of the Orcs here rather than earlier (the reason for this being the idea that the Orcs were made ‘in mockery of the Children of Ilúvatar’).

§68That Orodreth ‘stood aside’, taking the part neither of Finrod and Inglor nor of Angrod and Egnor and the Fëanorians, is a new element in the story; see under §73 below.

§70The account in QS of the Battle of Alqualondë, and of Fëanor’s calculations before it, is given a better progression and is substantially expanded from that in Q (IV. 95), while the concluding passage of §70, recounting the calling of the Teleri upon Ossë and the storm raised by Uinen, is altogether absent from the earlier versions.

§71Eruman is not used of this region in Q (where the name is applied to the land where Men first awoke in the East, IV. 99, 171), but it is found in this sense in the Ambarkanta (IV. 239; also on the maps, IV. 249, 251).

Some elements in this version of the Prophecy of the North not in Q (IV. 96) are found in AV annal 2993 (virtually the same in both versions), as ‘their oath should turn against them’, and ‘they should be slain with weapons, and with torments, and with sorrow’. On the other hand the AV version has an element not in QS, the prophecy that the Noldor should ‘in the long end fade upon Middle-earth and wane before the younger race’ (see IV. 171–2).

§73In AV 2 annal 2994 the story still went that Orodreth, as well as Angrod and Egnor, were taken by the Fëanorians in the ships; but

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