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first and second texts).
AV2. The second version of the Annals of Valinor.
AB2. The second version (or strictly the third) of the Annals
of Beleriand.
QS. The Quenta Silmarillion, the third version of 'The
Silmarillion', nearing completion at the end of 1937.
Other works (Ambarkanta, Ainulindale, Lhammas, The Lost
Road) are not referred to by abbreviations.

In conclusion, I take this opportunity to notice and explain the
erroneous representation of the Westward Extension of the first
'Silmarillion' Map in the previous volume (The Shaping of
Middle-earth p. 228). It will be seen that this map presents a
strikingly different appearance from that of the Eastward Exten-
sion on p. 231. These two maps, being extremely faint, proved
impossible to reproduce from photographs supplied by the
Bodleian Library, and an experimental 'reinforcement' (rather
than re-drawing) of a copy of the Westward Extension was tried
out. This I rejected, and it was then found that my photocopies of
the originals gave a result sufficiently clear for the purpose.
Unhappily, the rejected 'reinforced' version of the Westward
Extension map was substituted for the photocopy. (Photocopies
were also used for diagram III on p. 247 and map V on p. 251,
where the originals are in faint pencil.)