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The original outline.

The text of the original 'scheme' of the legend, referred to in the previous
chapter, was written at such speed that here and there words cannot be
certainly interpreted. Near the beginning it is interrupted by a very
rough and hasty sketch, which shows a central globe, marked Ambar,
with two circles around it; the inner area thus described is marked Ilmen
and the outer Vaiya. Across the top of Ambar and cutting through the
zones of Ilmen and Vaiya is a straight line extending to the outer circle in
both directions. This must be the forerunner of the diagram of the World
Made Round accompanying the Ambarkanta, IV.247. The first sen-
tence of the text, concerning Agaldor (on whom see pp. 78 - 9) is written
separately from the rest, as if it were a false start, or the beginning of a
distinct outline.

Agaldor chieftain of a people who live upon the N.W. margin of
the Western Sea.

The last battle of the Gods. Men side largely with Morgoth.
After the victory the Gods take counsel. Elves are summoned to
Valinor. [Struck out: Faithful men dwell in the Lands]
Many men had not come into the old Tales. They are still at
large on earth. The Fathers of Men are given a land to dwell in,
raised by Osse and Aule in the great Western Sea. The Western
Kingdom grows up. Atalante. [Added in margin: Legend so
named it afterward (the old name was Numar or Numenos)
Atalante = The Falling.] Its people great mariners, and men of
great skill and wisdom. They range from Tol-eressea to the shores
of Middle-earth. Their occasional appearance among Wild Men,
where Faithless Men also [?ranged corrupting them]. Some
become lords in the East. But the Gods will not allow them to land
in Valinor - and though they become long-lived because many
have been bathed in the radiance of Valinor from Tol-eressea -
they are mortal and their span brief. They murmur against this
decree. Thu comes to Atalante, heralded [read heralding] the
approach of Morgoth. But Morgoth cannot come except as a



spirit, being doomed to dwell outside the Walls of Night. The
Atalanteans fall, and rebel. They make a temple to Thu-Morgoth.
They build an armament and assail the shores of the Gods with
thunder.
The Gods therefore sundered Valinor from the earth, and
an awful rift appeared down which the water poured and the
armament of Atalante was drowned. They globed the whole earth
so that however far a man sailed he could never again reach the