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NOTES.

1. Vista: at all seven occurrences the original name Wilwa was changed,
first in pencil then in ink, to Vista; so also on the world-diagrams I and
II, and on the diagram III (the World Made Round).
2. Original reading Aiwenor; so also on diagram I.
3. Ilmen: at all the many occurrences the original name Silma was care-
fully erased and changed to Ilma (the same change on the map IV);
Ilma was then itself altered to Ilmen (the same succession of changes
on diagrams I and II).
4. Ambar is an emendation but the underlying word is wholly erased (so
also on diagram II; written in later on I).
5. In the margin is written Ilmen-assa, changed from Ilman-assa.
6. Ando Lomen is interpolated into the text, but in all probability not sig-
nificantly later than the original writing of the MS.
7. The last two sentences of this paragraph (from 'And in the middle
land...') were added, but to all appearance belong in time with the
original writing of the MS.
8. Utumno is emended from Utumna.
9. The original MS ends here; what follows, concerning the Earth Made
Round at the time of the assault of the Numenoreans, was added later
(see p. 309).

I give now the list of cosmological words accompanying the
Ambarkanta. My father made several changes to this list, but

since the alterations were mostly made over erasures and the
additions belong to the same period it is impossible to know
the original form of the list in all points. The changes in the
list are however much the same as those made in the text of
the Ambarkanta and on the world-diagrams; thus Silma > Ilma
> Ilmen, Wilwa > Vista, Aiwenor > Aiwenore; ava, ambar,
Endor over erasures; Avakuma, & Elenarda Stellar Kingdom
additions. The translation of Ilmen as 'Place of light' is an
emendation from 'sheen'.

Ilu The World. World.

Ilurambar The Walls of the World;
ramba wall

Kuma darkness, void Dark.
ava outer, exterior; Avakuma

Vaiya fold, envelope. In nature like to Outer Sea, or Encircling
water, but less buoyant than air, and Ocean, or Enfolding Ocean
surrounding The Outer Sea.*

Ilmen Place of light. The region above Sky. Heaven