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quite insignificant ways. In many cases my father later wrote in the C
reading on the typescript. I will illustrate this by a single example, a
passage in $25 (p. 15). Here C*, as typed, has:

But when they clad themselves the Valar arrayed themselves in the
form and temper some as of male and some as of female; and the
choice that they made herein proceeded, doubtless, from that
temper that each had from their uttermost beginning; for male and
female are not matters only of the body any more than of the
raiment.

The C text has here:

But when they clad themselves the Valar arrayed them in the form
some as of male and some as of female; for that difference of temper
they had even from their beginning, and it is but bodied forth in the
choice of each, not made by the choice; even as with us male and
female may be shown by the raiment, but is not made thereby.

Now in C this passage was written at the same time as what precedes it
and what follows it - it is all of a piece; whereas in C* the original
typed passage was struck through and the C text substituted in pencil.
There seemed no other explanation possible but that C* preceded
C; yet it seemed extraordinary, even incredible, that my father should
have first made a clear new typescript version from the old B
manuscript and then returned to that manuscript to cover it somewhat
chaotically with new writing - the more so since C* and C are for
much of their length closely similar.
When working on The Notion Club Papers I found among rough
notes and jottings on the Adunaic language a torn half-sheet of the
same paper as carries a passage from the Ainulindale', written in pencil
in my father's most rapid hand. While not proof that he was working
on the Ainulindale' so early as 1946 (the year to which I ascribe the
development of Adunaic, when The Lord of the Rings had been long
halted and The Return of the King no more than begun: see IX.12 - 13,
147) this strongly suggested it; and as will be seen in a moment there is
certain evidence that the text C* was in existence by 1948. Moreover
in a main structural feature C* follows this bit of text, as C does not
(see p. 42); it seemed very probable therefore that C* was typed from

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a very rough text of which the torn half-sheet is all that remains.
Here it must be mentioned that on the first page of C* my father
wrote later 'Round World Version', and (obviously at the same time)
on the title-page of B/C he wrote 'Old Flat World Version' - the word
'Old' being a subsequent addition. It would obviously be very
interesting to know when he labelled them thus; and the answer is
provided by the following evidences. The first is a draft for a letter,