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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
'Steep Relic' are in fact names used in manuscripts of the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the islands of Flatholme and
Steepholme at the mouth of the river Severn (see The Lost Road
and Other Writings p. 80); according to Earle and Plummer,
Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel (1892; II.128), 'The name
"Relic" may point to some Irish religious settlements on these
islands; "relicc" (= reliquiae) is the regular Irish name for a
cemetery.'
I take this opportunity to notice two important misprints that
entered the text of Sauron Defeated at a late stage. The first is
on p. 297, where line 45 of the poem Imram should read We
sailed then on till all winds failed, etc. The second is on p. 475,
where in Index II a line was dropped after the entry Pharazir;
the following should be restored: Pillar of Heaven, The 238,
241-2,249,302,315,317,335,353.

Lastly, I should mention that after the text of this book was in
print I added a discussion of the significance of the star-names
that appear on p. 160 to the head-note to the Index.




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