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Road crossed the river by the ruined town'. This is where Tharbad first
appears. Those who had climbed the pass at the sources of the
Gladden had reached the old home of Radagast at Rhosgobel': this is
where Rhosqobel is first named, and in the margin my father wrote
'Brown hay'.(10)
These last had returned up the Redway (11) and over the high pass
that was called the Dimrill Stair'. The name 'Dimrill Stair' for the pass
beneath Caradras has appeared in later emendations to the original
version of 'The Ring Goes South' (VI.433 - 4, notes 14 and 21). In the
present passage the name was not emended at any stage; but further
on in the chapter, where in this text Gandalf says 'If we climb the pass
that is called the Dimrill Stair ... we shall come down into the deep
dale of the Dwarves', my father (much later) emended the manuscript
to the reading of FR (p. 296): 'If we climb the pass that is called the
Redhorn Gate ... we shall come down by the Dimrill Stair into the
deep vale of the Dwarves' (and thus Robert Foster, in The Complete
Guide to Middle-earth, defines Dimrill Stair as 'Path leading from
Azanulbizar to the Redhorn Pass'). The name of the pass (called in this
text the 'Dimrill Pass' as well as the 'Dimrill Stair') was changed also
at other occurrences in this chapter, but at this place my father having
missed it in the manuscript it was retained in the typescript that soon
followed (note 6), and so survived into FR, p. 287: 'over the high pass
that was called the Dimrill Stair' - an error that was never picked up.

The Choosing of the Company is found in this manuscript in two
alternative versions. Though the essential content is the same in both,
and both end with the inclusion of Merry and Pippin after Gandalf's
advocacy, the one written first is rather nearer to the preceding version
(pp. 113 - 15): the chief difference between them being that in the first
the formation of the Company is seen as it takes place, whereas in the
second (which is almost identical to the form in FR) the deliberations
have been largely completed and Elrond announces the decision to the
hobbits.(12)
There are several differences worth noticing in the first of these
versions. After Gandalf's remark that his fate 'seems much entangled
with hobbits' Elrond says: 'You will be needed many times before the
journey's end, Gandalf; but maybe when there is most need you will

not be there. This is your greatest peril, and I shall not have peace till I
see you again.' The loss of Gandalf was of course foreseen (VI.443,
462). Aragorn, after saying to Frodo that since he himself is going to
Minas Tirith their roads lie together for many hundreds of leagues,
adds: 'Indeed it is my counsel that you should go first to that city'. And
after saying that for the two unfilled places needed to make nine he
may be able to find some 'of my own kindred and household' Elrond
continues (but the passage was at once deleted): 'The elf-lords I may
not send, for though their power is great it is not great enough. They
cannot walk unhidden from wrath and spirit of evil, and news of the
Company would reach Mordor by day or night.'
In these passages, and throughout the rest of the chapter (in