The Book of Lost Tales - J. R. Tolkien [234]
Venus 266
Vettar Wood-rangers(?). 101
Vikings 322–3, 330–1, 333. See Forodwaith, Gwasgonin, Winged Helms.
Vingelot See Wingilot.
Vinyamar Turgon’s dwelling in Nevrast. 204–5, 217
Voice of Goth Gothmog. 67
Voronwë Form of Bronweg’s name in Eldarissa. Called ‘the faithful’ (156). 145, 149, 156–60, 162, 166, 178, 186–8, 195, 198, 200, 203, 205–7, 209, 214–15, 254–6, 258, 260, 263–5, 286. See Bronweg.
Wfre See Ottor Wfre.
Wall of Things 259; the Wall 317, 325; Western Walls 320, 325; Wall of Space 274
Warwick 292–3, 295, 300, 308, 310, 328; Warwickshire 324; poem The Town of Dreams 295–6, 298
Waters of Awakening 64, 197, 285
Way of Dreams 8, 42, 48. See Olórë Mallë, Path of Dreams.
Way of Escape 158, 163, 166–7, 177, 189, 195, 210, 213–14. See especially 206–7, and see Bad Uthwen.
Way of Running Waters In Gondolin. 186
Wéalas (Old English) The Welsh. 290; adjective Wíelisc 292
Wendelin Early name of Melian. 8, 48–51, 63, 244
Wendelsæ (Old English) The Mediterranean Sea. 294
Wessex 301–2
Westerland 267–8
Western Isles, Western Islands 5, 332; Islands of the West 331; Vala of the Western Isles 95, 141
Western Sea(s) 5–7, 294, 299–300, 311, 315, 320, 330. See Great Sea.
West Wind 261
Wíelisc See Wéalas.
Wing, The Emblem of Tuor, see Swan; White Wing 172; men, folk, guard, of the Wing in Gondolin 174, 176–8, 180, 182, 190, 192
Winged Helms The Forodwaith. 330, 334. See Gwasgonin.
Wingildi Spirits of the sea-foam. 276
Wingilot ‘Foam-flower’, Eärendel’s ship. 145, 253–4, 256, 260–1, 263; Wingelot 260, 262, 272; Vingelot 262, 272
Wirilómë ‘Gloomweaver’. 260–1. See Ungweliant(ë).
Withered Dale Where Tevildo encountered Huan. 48, 56
Withered Heath Heath near Tavrobel, after the Battle of the Heath of the Sky-roof. 284, 287
Wóden Old English name of the Germanic god in Old Norse called Óðinn; by Eriol identified with Manwë. 290
Wolfriders See Orcs.
Wolf-Sauron 55
Woodland Elves Elves of Artanor. Also Woodelves, Elves of the wood(land), of the forest, etc. 11, 13, 18, 34–5, 37, 43, 45, 52, 63, 65–6, 69, 73–4, 78, 92, 142, 222–3, 228, 242–3, 245–6; wood(land) fairies 23, 35, 63; hidden Elves 10; secret Elves 11, 73, 123
Woodmen (later Woodmen of Brethil) Also woodfolk, wood(land)-rangers. 91, 100–8, 112–13, 125, 127, 130–5, 138, 141–2. See Vettar.
Yavanna 286. See Belaurin, Palúrien.
Year of Lamentation 120
Ythlings ‘Children of the Waves’. 319–20, 322, 325, 331–2, 334; Ythlingas 331; described, 318. See Eneathrim, Shipmen of the West.
About the Author
The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J. R. R. Tolkien, begun in 1916–17 when he was 25 years old, and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-Earth and Valinor, for the Lost Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in English legend and English association, they are set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or Ælfwine) to Tol Eressëa, the Lonely Isle, where Elves dwelt; from them he learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In the Tales are found the earliest accounts and original ideas of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs, and Orcs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; of Nargothrond and Gondolin; of the geography and cosmography of the invented world.
The Book of Lost Tales is published in two volumes; the first contains the Tales of Valinor, and this second part includes Beren and Lúthien, Túrin and the Dragon, and the only full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin. Each tale is followed by a commentary in the form of a short essay, together with the texts of associated poems, and each volume contains extensive information on names and vocabulary in the earliest Elvish languages. Further books in this series are planned to extend the history of Middle-Earth as it was refined and enlarged in later years, and will include the long Lays of Beleriand, the Ambarkanta