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from the Elves, but who had myths and cosmogonic legends, and
astronomical guesses, of their own. There is, however, nothing in
them that seriously conflicts with present human notions of the
Solar System, and its size and position relative to the Universe.
The sentence which I have italicised suggests an assured commit-
ment, at the least, to the re-formation of the old cosmology. - For
references in the Commentary on the Athrabeth to the Numenorean
part in the transmission of legends of the Elder Days see
pp. 342, 344, 360.
2. These are a proposal that Niniel (Nienor) should 'in her looks and
ways' remind Turin of Lalaeth, his sister who died in childhood
(see Unfinished Tales p. 147 note 7), and another, marked with a
query, that Turin should think of the words of Saeros, the Elf of
Doriath, when he finds Niniel naked in the eaves of the Forest
of Brethil (Unfinished Tales pp. 80, 122).
On the back of this slip my father wrote (in a furious scribble in
ball-point pen):
The cosmogonic myths are Numenorean, blending Elven-lore
with human myth and imagination. A note should say that the
Wise of Numenor recorded that the making of stars was not so,
nor of Sun and Moon. For Sun and stars were all older than
Arda. But the placing of Arda amidst stars and under the
[?guard] of the Sun was due to Manwe and Varda before
the assault of Melkor.
I take the words 'the Wise of Numenor recorded that the making
of stars was not so, nor of Sun and Moon' to mean that the
making of the Sun, Moon and stars was not derived from 'Elven-
lore'. It is to be noted that Arda here means 'the Earth', not 'the
Solar System'.
3. I have said (p. 64) that I would be inclined to place AAm* with the



writing of the original manuscript of the Annals rather than to
some later time, but this is no more than a guess.

II.

This is a text of a most problematic nature, a manuscript in ink that
falls into two parts which are plainly very closely associated: a
discussion, with proposals for the 'regeneration' of the mythology;
and an abandoned narrative. Neither has title or heading.

The Making of the Sun and Moon must occur long before the
coming of the Elves; and cannot be made to be after the death of
the Two Trees - if that occurred in any connexion with the
sojourn of the Noldor in Valinor. The time allowed is too short.
Neither could there be woods and flowers &c. on earth, if there
had been no light since the overthrow of the Lamps!(1)
But how can, nonetheless, the Eldar be called the 'Star-folk'?