"GL4" - читать интересную книгу автора (vol06)

come with Gloin - precursor of Gimli Gloin's son in LR; the Elf from
Mirkwood, precursor of Legolas; Erestor, counsellor of Elrond; two
kinsmen of Elrond; and Boromir - so named unhesitatingly from the
start (14) - from the Land of Ond far in the South. The Land of Ond is

named in an outline dated August 1939 (p. 381). Treebeard is no longer
placed in 'the Forest of Neldoreth' (p. 384), but in 'the Forest between
the [Great] River and the South Mountains' - the first mention of the
mountains that would afterwards be Ered Nimrais, the White Moun-
tains; and Gandalf warns against him (as well he might, having been his
captive, 'in Fangorn', p. 363).
The passage concerning the Three Rings of the Elves and the Seven
Rings of the Dwarves is to be compared with a passage in the third phase
version of 'Ancient History', p. 320, where Gandalf says that he does not
know what has become of 'the Three Rings of Earth, Sea, and Sky', but
believes that 'they have long been carried far over the Great Sea' - which
is to be associated no doubt with Elrond's words in the present text: 'it
would be ill indeed if Sauron should discover where they be, or have
power over their rulers; for then perhaps his shadow would stretch even
to the Blessed Realm.' In the same passage of 'Ancient History' Gandalf
says that 'the foundation of each of the Seven Hoards of the dwarves of
old was a golden ring', and that it is said that all the Seven Rings perished
in the fire of the dragons: 'Yet that account, maybe, is not wholly true.'
With the menacing messages to King Dain out of Mordor here cf.
Queries and Alterations (p. 226, $ 11 ): 'The dwarves might have received
threatening messages from Mordor - for the Lord suspected that the One
Ring was in their hoards.' In the same note it is said that 'after a time no
word was heard of them [Balin and his companions]. Dain feared the
Dark Lord'; so also Gloin says here that 'the disappearance of Balin and
his people is now revealed as part of the same evil.' At this time the story
was that Sauron demanded the return of the Rings which the Dwarves
still possessed - or Bilbo's Ring 'in lieu of all'; in FR (p. 254) they were
offered the return of three of the ancient Rings of the Dwarves if they
could obtain Bilbo's Ring.
The reference to Thrain, father of Thorin Oakenshield, in the dun-
geons of the Necromancer, where Gandalf found him, goes back to The
Hobbit (Chapter I); but the story emerges here that he possessed one
of the Rings of the Dwarves, and that it was taken from him after
his capture (see FR pp. 281 - 2, and LR Appendix A III, pp. 353 - 4,
357 - 8).

The 'Many Meetings' text (extant in two forms) given on pp. 391 ff.
continued into the beginning of an account of the Council of Elrond, held
in the open in a glade above the house; but from the words '"Bless me!"
said Gandalf. "The council is in half an hour"' (p. 395) my father struck
it through, and added the note at the end saying that the Council must be
held 'behind closed doors' (p. 396). A new manuscript now begins,
taking up at '"Bless me!" said Gandalf', and in this is found the first
complete narrative of the deliberations of the Council. This was origin-
ally paginated 'XII' with page-numbers consecutive from 'Suddenly a