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the Nauglafring, where after the sack of Artanor (Doriath)
the Dwarves journeying thence to their homes in the South
(II. 225) had to pass the 'fierce stream' Aros at Sarnathrod,
the Stony Ford (II. 236). It is also said in the same place that
Aros, nearer to its spring, ran past the doors of the Caves of
the Rodothlim, though against this my father later noted
(II. 244 note 15) 'No [?that] is Narog', while in the Tale of
Turambar it is said (II. 81) that the Caves were above a
stream that 'ran down to feed the river Sirion'. I am not sure
how to interpret this. If it is assumed that the Stony Ford in
the Tale of the Nauglafring was on the (later) Aros, then the
Caves of the Rodothlim were on that river also, which is
most improbable. On the other hand, if Aros was simply the
earlier name of Narog, the question arises why the Dwarves
fleeing out of Artanor should have been going in this direc-
tion.
On the whole I am inclined to think that the phrase in the
Tale of the Nauglafring saying that Aros ran past the Caves
of the Rodothlim was a momentary confusion in a text writ-
ten at very great speed (II. 221), and that the Stony Ford
(but not the Caves) was always on the Aros, this river hav-

ing always borne this name. If this is so, this is still the ge-
ography on the map (as originally marked in this detail),
where Athrasarn (Stony Ford) was placed on the Aros half-
way between Umboth-muilin and the inflowing of Celon. At
this time the Land of the Cuilwarthin was in the North of
the Hills of the Hunters; and therefore in the story implied
by the map Beren and his Elves crossed Sirion from his land
and ambushed the Dwarves on the southern confines of
Doriath. It is not clear why the Dwarves were not taking
the Dwarf-road from the Thousand Caves, which crossed the
Aros much higher up; on this point see the note on the
Dwarf-road in the northern half of the map.
Before the first map was laid aside the idea had changed,
and when the Land of the Cuilwarthin was moved eastward
(see note on Beren) the Stony Ford was moved eastward also;
for the later history see under the Eastward Extension of this
map.

Athrasarn (Stony Ford) See Aros.

Beren The first placing of Beren and Land of the Cuilwarthin
(Land of the Dead that Live), in the North of the Hills of the
Hunters and in the proximity of Nargothrond, agrees with
the Lay of the Children of Hurin lines 1545 - 6 (see III. 89),
and so still in S ($10). In the Last Tales the Dead that Live
Again were (i-)Guilwarthon, changed in the Tale of Tinuviel
(II. 41) to i-Cuilwarthon; in Q ($14) the land is called
Cuilwarthien, changed to Gwerth-i-Cuina.