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undated and with no indication of whom he was addressing:



These tales are feigned to be translated from the preserved works of
AElfwine of England (c.900 A.D.), called by the Elves Eriol, who
being blown west from Ireland eventually came upon the 'Straight
Road' and found Tol Eressea the Lonely Isle.
He brought back copies and translations of many works. I do not
trouble you with the Anglo-Saxon forms. (The only trace of these is
the use of c for k as in Celeb- beside Keleb-.)
All these histories are told by Elves and are not primarily
concerned with Men.
I have ventured to include 2 others.
(1) A 'Round World' version of the 'Music of the Ainur'.
(2) A 'Man's' version of the Fall of Numenor told from men's
point of view, and with names in a non-Elvish tongue. 'The
Drowning of Anadune . This also is Round World'.(1)
The Elvish myths are 'Flat World'. A pity really but it is too
integral to change it.

On the back of the paper he wrote: 'For the moment I cannot find the
Tale called The Rings of Power', and referred again in much the same
terms to 'two other tales' that he was 'enclosing'.
There is another draft for this letter which, while again undated,
was written from Merton College and addressed to Mrs. Katherine
Farrer, the wife of Dr. Austin Farrer, theologian and at that time
Chaplain of Trinity College:

Dear Mrs. Farrer,
These tales are feigned (I do not include their slender framework)
to be translated from the preserved work of AElfwine of England
(c.900 A.D.), who being blown west from Ireland eventually came
upon the 'straight road' and found the Lonely Isle, Tol Eressea,
beyond the seas.
There he learned ancient lore, and brought back translations and

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excerpts from works of Elvish lore. The specimen of the 'Anglo-
Saxon' original is not included.
NB All these histories are told by the Elves, and are not primarily
concerned with Men.
I have ventured to' include, besides the 'Silmarillion' or main
chronicle, one or two other connected 'myths': 'The Music of the
Ainur', the Beginning; and the Later Tales:(2) 'The Rings of Power',
and 'The Fall of Numenor', which link up with Hobbit-lore of the
later or 'Third Age'.
Yours