The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1 - J. R. R. Tolkien [182]
Years of Double Mirth See Double Mirth.
You and Me and the Cottage of Lost Play (poem) 27–30, 32, 136
Other Books by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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* When the name is printed in italics, I refer to the work as published; when in inverted commas, to the work in a more general way, in any or all of its forms.
* Only in the case of The Music of the Ainur was there a direct development, manuscript to manuscript, from The Book of Lost Tales to the later forms; for The Music of the Ainur became separated off and continued as an independent work.
* The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Humphrey Carpenter, 1981, p. 144. The letter was almost certainly written in 1951.
* J. R. R. Tolkien, Finn and Hengest, ed. Alan Bliss, 1982.
* The great tower or tirion that Ingil son of Inwe built (p. 16) and the great tower of Warwick Castle are not identified, but at least it is certain that Koromas had a great tower because Warwick has one.
† This poem is given, in three different texts, on pp. 33–43.—A poem written at Étaples in the Pas de Calais in June 1916 and entitled ‘The Lonely Isle’ is explicitly addressed to England. See Letters, p. 437, note 4 to letter 43.
‡ For the distinction between Eldar and Noldoli see pp. 50–1.
* A little light on Lindo’s references to the ringing of the Gong on the Shadowy Seas and the Sleeper in the Tower of Pearl will be shed when the story of Eärendel is reached at the end of the Tales.
* This seems to echo the lines of Francis Thompson’s poem Daisy:
Two children did we stray and talk
Wise, idle, childish things.
My father acquired the Works of Francis Thompson in 1913 and 1914.
* He had been asked for his permission to include the poem in an anthology, as it had been several times previously. See Humphrey Carpenter, Biography, p. 74, where (a part only) of the poem is printed, and also his bibliography ibid. (year 1915).
† According to my father’s notes, the original composition dates from November 21–28,