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have a more general bearing. But he continues (as in FR): 'Only once
before have I seen them from afar in waking life, but I know them and
their names, for under them lies Khazad-dum, the Dwarrowdelf, that
is now called the Black [Gulf >] Pit,(17) Moria in the elvish tongue', and
it seems that he is here speaking of certain notable and outstanding
peaks, distinctive in the chain of the Misty Mountains, beneath which
lay Moria. (The three great Mountains of Moria were in any case just
about to enter, in Gimli's next speech.) Here he says, as in FR, 'Yonder
stands Barazinbar, the Redhorn, cruel Caradhras', 'cruel' being altered
at the moment of writing from 'the windy', and that from 'the tall', as
also was Caradhras from Caradras.(18) And he speaks also of Azanul-
bizar, the Dimrill-dale that elves call Nanduhirion .(19)
Gandalf's reply, and Gimli's further words about the Mirrormere,
are a difficult complex of rapid changes in the manuscript, when new
elements are seen at the moment of emergence. With some slight doubt
as to the precise sequence of correction, the passage seems to have
developed thus:

'It is for Dimrill-dale that we are making,' said Gandalf. 'If we
climb the pass that is called the Dimrill Stair under the red side
of Caradhras, we shall come down into the deep dale of the
Dwarves.(20) There the River [Redway rises in the black wat(er)
Morthond Blackroot >] Morthond the cold rises in the Mirror-
mere.'
'Dark is the water of Kheledzaram,' said Gimli, 'and mirrors
only the far sky and three white peaks; and cold is the water of
Buzundush. My heart trembles at the thought that I may see
them soon.'

Obviously, it was as my father began to write the words he intended:
'the River Redway rises in the black wat[er of the Mirrormere]' that he
changed the name of the river to Morthond, 'Blackroot'; and I think

that it was here also that the three peaks above Moria entered,
mirrored in the water.(21) He then wrote a new passage, no doubt
intended to supersede part of that just given, but struck it out,
probably immediately:

There lies Kheledzaram, the Mirror-mere, deep and dark, in
which can be seen only the far sky and three white peaks. From
it issues Buzundush, the Blackroot River, Morthond cold and
swift. My heart trembles at the thought that I may see them
soon.'(22)

Gandalf replying said: '... we at least cannot stay in that valley. We
must go down the Morthond into the woods of Lothlorien...' (FR:
'into the secret woods'). This is where, as it seems, the name
Lothlorien first appears. And when Merry asked: 'Yes, and where
then?' the wizard answered: 'To the end of the journey - in the end. It
may be that you will pass through Fangorn, which some call the