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Gloin was there also with [an attendant >] a younger dwarf,
whom Frodo later discovered was Burin son of Balin.' A strange
elf, a messenger from the king of the Wood-elves... Eastern
Mirkwood was seated beside Burin. Trotter (as Frodo continued
to call him instead of Peregrin or the Elvish equivalent Ethelion)
was there, and all the rest of the hobbit party, Merry, Folco, and
Odo. There were besides three other counsellors attendant on
Elrond, one an Elf named Erestor, and two other kinsmen of
Elrond, of that half-elvish folk whom the Elves named the
children of Luthien.(9) And seated alone and silent was a Man of
noble face, but dark and sad.
'This is Boromir,' said Elrond. 'He arrived only yesterday, in
the evening. He comes from far away in the South, and his tidings
may be of use to us.'

It would take long to tell of all that was spoken in that council
under the fair trees of Rivendell. The sun climbed to noon and was
turning westward before all the tidings were recounted. Then
Elves brought food and drink for the company. The sun had fallen
low and its slanting light was red in the valley before an end was
made of the debate and they rose and returned down the long path
to the house.

Both texts end at this point. At the end of the second my father wrote:
'(The Council must be behind closed doors. Frodo invited to presence of
Elrond. Tidings of the world. They decide Ring must be destroyed.)'
While Trotter is Peregrin Boffin, and the long-awaited 'recognition'
between Trotter and Frodo takes place, Odo is still present: but in the
papers dated August 1939, where the identification of Trotter with
Peregrin Boffin first appears, Odo appears to be emphatically aban-
doned. Once again, Odo seems to have proved unsinkable, even though,
as discussed on p. 375, Folco had effectively assumed his character. - Of
course, these 'Rivendell' manuscripts may very well belong to the same
time, and a step-by-step reconstruction cannot be expected. In any case,
the removal of Odo and (much more) the identity of Trotter were
questions long revolved, and such notes as 'Trotter had better not be a
hobbit' or 'Odo must be cut out' are rather the traces of a long debate
than a series of clear-cut, successive decisions.
The text just given was continued in a further manuscript of different
form, in which appears the first complete version of the Council of
Elrond; but before going on to this, two sides of a single isolated page
seem undoubtedly to represent my father's first expressed ideas for the
Council. It was written in pencil so faint and rapid that it would be
largely illegible had my father not gone over it in ink; and he himself
could not be sure in places of what he had written, but had to make
guesses at words, marking them with queries. In representing this
extraordinarily interesting text I give these guessed words of his in italic
within brackets. At the head of the page is an isolated direction that the
'Weathertop business' must be 'simplified'. It would be interesting to
know what he had in mind: the only 'complication' that was, in the event,