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both in narrative and discussion (to which must be added of
course all the material in the volume of letters), concerning the
Elder Days before the Hiding of Valinor. The next volume will
contain, according to my intention, all or at any rate most of the
original texts relating to the legends of Beleriand and the War
of the Jewels, including the full text of the Grey Annals and a
major narrative remaining unpublished and unknown, The
Wanderings of Hurin.

The publication of the texts in this book makes it possible to
relate, if not at all points or in every detail, the first eleven
chapters (with the exception of Chapter II 'Of Aule and
Yavanna' and Chapter X 'Of the Sindar') of the published
Silmarillion to their sources. This is not the purpose of the book,
and I have not discussed the construction of the published text
at large; I have presented the material in terms of its evolution
from earlier forms, and in those parts that concern the revision
and rewriting of the Quenta Silmarillion I have retained the
paragraph numbers from the pre-Lord of the Rings text given in
Volume V, so that comparison is made simple. But the (inevit-
ably complex) documentation of the revised Quenta Silmaril-
lion is intended to show clearly its very curious relationship to
the Annals of Aman, which was a major consideration in the
formation of the text in the first part of the published work.
I am much indebted to Mr Charles Noad, who has once again
undertaken the onerous task of reading the text in proof

independently and checking all references and citations with
scrupulous care, to its great improvement.

I am very grateful for the following communications concern-
ing Volume IX, Sauron Defeated. Mr John D. Rateliff has
pointed out an entry in the diary of W. H. Lewis for 22 August
1946 (Brothers and Friends: The Diaries of Major Warren
Hamilton Lewis, ed. C. S. Kilby and M. L. Mead, 1982, p. 194).
In this entry Warnie Lewis recorded that at the Inklings meeting
that evening my father read 'a magnificent myth which is to knit
up and conclude his Papers of the Notions [sic] Club.' The myth
is of course the Drowning of Anadune. I was present on this
occasion but cannot recall it (in this connection see Sauron
Defeated p. 389).
Mr William Hicklin has explained why John Rashbold, the
undergraduate member of the Notion Club who never speaks,
should bear the second name Jethro. In the Old Testament
Moses' father-in-law is named both Jethro and Reuel (Exodus
2:18 and 3:1); thus John Jethro Rashbold = John Reuel Tolkien
(see Sauron Defeated pp. 151, 160).
I was unable to explain the reference (pp. 277 - 8) to the
retreat of the Danes from Porlock in Somerset to 'Broad Relic',
but Miss Rhona Beare has pointed out that 'Broad Relic' and