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Straight Path through Ilmen, but achieving only flight through the lower
air, Wilwa.*
The sentence 'Thu comes to Atalante, herald[ing] the approach of
Morgoth' certainly means that Thu prophesied Morgoth's return, as in
subsequent texts. The meaning of 'But Morgoth cannot come except as a
spirit' is made somewhat clearer in the next version, $5.

(ii)

The first version of The Fall of Numenor.

The preliminary outline was the immediate precursor of a first full
narrative - the manuscript described above (p. 9), placed with The
Lost Road. This was followed by further versions, and I shall refer to the
work as a whole (as distinct from the Akallabeth, into which it was
afterwards transformed) as The Fall of Numenor, abbreviated 'FN'; the
first text has no title, but I shall call it 'FN I'.
FN I is rough and hasty, and full of corrections made at the time of
composition; there are also many others, mostly slight, made later and
moving towards the second version FN II. I give it as it was written,
without the second layer of emendations (except in so far as these make
small necessary corrections to clarify the sense). As explained in the
Preface, here as elsewhere I have introduced paragraph numbers into the
text to make subsequent reference and comparison easier. A com-
mentary, following the paragraphing of the text, follows at its end.

$1 In the Great Battle when Fionwe son of Manwe over-
threw Morgoth and rescued the Gnomes and the Fathers of Men,
many mortal Men took part with Morgoth. Of these those that
were not destroyed fled into the East and South of the World, and
the servants of Morgoth that escaped came to them and guided

(* Although this text has the final form Ilmen, beside Silma > Ilma > Ilmen in
the Ambarkanta, Wilwa was replaced in the Ambarkanta by Vista).

them; and they became evil, and they brought evil into many
places where wild Men dwelt at large in the empty lands. But after
their victory, when Morgoth and many of his captains were
bound, and Morgoth was thrust again into the Outer Darkness,
the Gods took counsel. The Elves were summoned to Valinor, as
has been told, and many obeyed, but not all. But the Fathers of
Men, who had served the Eldar, and fought against Morgoth,
were greatly rewarded. For Fionwe son of Manwe came among
them and taught them, and gave them wisdom, power and life
stronger than any others of the Second Kindred.
$2. And a great land was made for them to dwell in, neither
part of Middle-earth nor wholly separate from it. This was raised
by Osse out of the depths of Belegar, the Great Sea, and estab-
lished by Aule, and enriched by Yavanna. It was called Numenor,
that is Westernesse, and Andunie or the Sunsetland, and its chief