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Leithian.
It is strange also that in A the king's daughter was blue-eyed and
golden-haired, for this would not accord with the robe of darkness that

(* My father expressly stated in his diary that he began Tinuviel iel in the summer of 1925;
and it is to be noted that a reference to the Lay of Leithian appears in the alliterative
head-piece to one of the typcscripts of Light as Leaf on Lindentree - which was actually
published in June 1925 (see pp. 120-1). Thus the reference in the second version of The
Children of Hurin to the Lay of Leithian (p. 107 line 356) is not evidence that he had in
fact begun it.)



she spun from her hair: in the Tale of Tinuviel her hair was 'dark'
(II. 20).
The name Broceliand that appears in A (Broseliand B) is remark-
able, but I can cast no light on my father's choice of this name (the
famous Forest of Broceliande in Brittany of the Arthurian legends).> It
would be interesting to know how Broseliand led to Beleriand, and a
clue may perhaps be found on a page of rough working for the opening of
the Lay, where he jotted down various names that must be possibilities
that he was pondering for the name of the land. The fact that Ossiriand
occurs among them, while it is also pencilled against Broseliand at lines
41 and 96 in B(1), may suggest that these names arose during the search
for a replacement of Broseliand. The names are:

Colodhinand, Noldorinan, Geleriand, Bladorinand, Belaurien,
Arsiriand, Lassiriand, Ossiriand.

Colodhinand is incidentally interesting as showing Colodh, the later
Sindarin equivalent of Quenya Noldo (in the old Gnomish dictionary
Golda was the Gnomish equivalent of 'Elvish' Noldo, I. 262). Geleriand
I can cast no light on; but Belaurien is obviously connected with
Belaurin, the Gnomish form of Pahirien (I. 264), and Bladorinand
with Palurien's name Bladorwen 'the wide earth, Mother Earth' (ibid.).
It seems at least possible that Belaurien lies behind Beleriand (which
was afterwards explained quite differently).
Another curious feature is the word beyond in They dwelt beyond
Broseliand, the reading of B(1) at line 41, where A has in and B(2) has
amid.
Esga(l)duin, Taur-na-Fuin (for Taur Fuin of the Lost Tales), and
the Thousand Caves have all appeared in The Children of Hurin; but
in the mountains that

to East in peaks of blue were piled
in silence folded, mist-enfurled

- lines that are absent from A and B(1) - we have the first appearance of
the Blue Mountains (Ered Luin) of the later legends: fencing Beleriand,
as it seems, from the Outer World.