The Book of Lost Tales - J. R. Tolkien [235]
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THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH
I
THE BOOK OF LOST TALES, PART ONE
II
THE BOOK OF LOST TALES, PART TWO
III
THE LAYS OF BELERIAND
IV
THE SHAPING OF MIDDLE-EARTH
V
THE LOST ROAD AND OTHER WRITINGS
VI
THE RETURN OF THE SHADOW
VII
THE TREASON OF ISENGARD
VIII
THE WAR OF THE RING
IX
SAURON DEFEATED
X
MORGOTH’S RING
XI
THE WAR OF THE JEWELS
XII
THE PEOPLES OF MIDDLE-EARTH
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* Footnote in the manuscript: Tifil (Bridhon) Miaugion or Tevildo (Vardo) Meoita.
* Written above Umuiyan here is the name Gumniow, enclosed within brackets.
* The long unfinished poem in rhyming couplets in which is told the story of Beren and Lúthien Tinúviel; composed in 1925–31, but parts of it substantially rewritten many years later.
* Cf. Professor T. A. Shippey, The Road to Middle-earth, 1982, p. 193: ‘In “Beren and Lúthien” as a whole there is too much plot. The other side of that criticism is that on occasion Tolkien has to be rather brisk with his own inventions. Celegorm wounds Beren, and the hound Huan turns on his master and pursues him; “returning he brought to Lúthien a herb out of the forest. With that leaf she staunched Beren’s wound, and by her arts and her love she healed him….” The motif of the healing herb is a common one, the centre for instance of the Breton lai of Eliduc (turned into conte by Marie de France). But in that it occupies a whole scene, if not a whole poem. In The Silmarillion it appears only to be dismissed in two lines, while Beren’s wound is inflicted and healed in five. Repeatedly one has this sense of summary…’ This sense is eminently justified! In the Lay of Leithian the wounding and the healing with the herb occupy some 64 lines. (Cf. my Foreword to The Silmarillion, p. 8.)
* In an early note there is a reference to ‘the sacred Silmarils’: I. 169, note 2.
* The idea that Timpinen (Tinfang Warble) was the son of Tinwelint and sister of Tinúviel (see I. 106, note 1) had been abandoned. Tifanto/Dairon is now named with Tinfang and Ivárë as ‘the three most magic players of the Elves