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mean 'one loyal to the Valar, content with the bliss and
prosperity
within the limits prescribed' and 'one loyal to friendship with
the
High-elves'. It started with a father-son affinity between Edwin
and
Elwin of the present, and was supposed to go back into legendary
time
by way of an Eadwine and AElfwine of circa A.D.918, and Audoin
and
Alboin of Lombardic legend, and so to the traditions of the North
Sea
concerning the coming of corn and culture heroes, ancestors of
kingly
 lines, in boats (and their departure in funeral ships). One such
Sheaf,
or Shield Sheafing, can actually be made out as one of the
remote
ancestors of the present Queen. In my tale we were to come at last
to
Amandil and Elendil leaders of the loyal party in Numenor, when
it
fell under the domination of Sauron. Elendil 'elf-friend' was
the
founder of the Exiled kingdoms in Arnor and Gondor. But I found
my

(* This is Akallabeth, The Downfall of Numenor, posthumously published
in
The Silmarillion, pp. 259-82.)



real interest was only in the upper end, the Akallabeth or Atalantie*
('Downfall' in Numenorean and Quenya), so I brought all the stuff I
had written on the originally unrelated legends of Numenor into
relation with the main mythnlogy.
I do not know whether evidence exists that would date the
conversation
that led to the writing of Out of the Silent Planet and The Last
Road, but
the former was finished by the autumn of 1937, and the
latter was
submitted, so far as it went, to Allen and Unwin in November
of that
year (see 1 II.364).
The significance of the last sentence in the passage just cited
is not
entirely clear. When my father said 'But I found my real interest
was only