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leaving the main company to follow he).
For differences in the printed text of The Fall of Gondolin from the
page reproduced see page 201, notes 34 36, and page 203, Bad Uthwen;
some other small differences not referred to in the notes are also due to
later changes made to the text B of the Tale (see pages 146 -- 7).
These pages illustrate the complicated 'jigsaw' of the manuscripts of
the Lost Tales described in the Foreword to Part I, page 10.
I take this opportunity to notice that it has been pointed out to me by
Mr Douglas A. Anderson that the version of the poem Why the Man in
the Moon came down too soon printed in The Book of Lost Tales I is not, as
I supposed, that published in A Northern Venture in 1923, but contains
several subsequent changes.
The third volume in this 'History' will contain the alliterative Lay
of the Children of Hurin (c. 1918 -- 1925) and the Lay of Leithian (1925 --
1931), together with the commentary on a part of the latter by
C. S. Lewis, and the rewriting of the poem that my father embarked on
after the completion of The Lord of the Rings.
I.
THE TALE OF TINUVIEL.
The Tale of Tinuviel was written in 1917, but the earliest extant text is
later, being a manuscript in ink over an erased original in pencil; and in
fact my father's rewriting of this tale seems to have been one of the last
completed elements in the Lost Tales (see I. 203 -- 4).
There is also.a typescript version of the Tale of Tinuviel, later than the
manuscript but belonging to the same 'phase' of the mythology: my
father had the manuscript before him and changed the text as he went
along. Significant differences between the two versions of the tale are
given on pp. 41 ff.
In the manuscript the tale is headed: 'Link to the Tale of Tinuviel, also
the Tale of Tinuviel.' The Link begins with the following passage:
'Great was the power of Melko for ill,' said Eriol, 'if he could indeed
destroy with his cunning the happiness and glory of the Gods and
Elves, darkening the light of their dwelling and bringing all their love
to naught. This must surely be the worst deed that ever he has done.'
'Of a truth never has such evil again been done in Valinor,' said
Lindo, 'but Melko's hand has laboured at worse things in the world,
and the seeds of his evil have waxen since to a great and terrible
growth.'
'Nay,' said Eriol, 'yet can my heart not think of other griefs, for
sorrow at the destruction of those most fair Trees and the darkness of
the world.'
This passage was struck out, and is not found in the typescript text,
but it reappears in almost identical form at the end of The Flight of the
Noldoli (I. 169). The reason for this was that my father decided that the
Tale of the Sun and Moon, rather than Tinuviel, should follow The
Darkening of Valinor and The Flight of the Nolduli (see I. 203 -- 4,
where the complex question of the re-ordering of the Tales at this point is
discussed). The opening words of the next part of the Link, 'Now in the
days soon after the telling of this tale', referred, when they were written,
to the tale of The Darkening of Valinor and The Flight of the Noldoli;