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the first two volumes (it was the chief cause of the delay of Volume III), until it became clear that size and cost were
ruinous."
In the event there was no index to The Lord of the Rings until the second edition of 1966, but my father's
original rough draft has been preserved. From it I derived the plan of my index to The Silmarillion, with translation of
names and brief explanatory statements, and also, both there and in the index to this book, some of the translations and
the wording of some of the "definitions." From it comes also the "essay on the Istari" with which this section of the
book opens тАУ an entry wholly uncharacteristic of the original index in its length, if characteristic of the way in which
my father often worked.
For the other citations in this section I have given in the text itself such indications of date as can be provided.

III
The Palantiri
For the second edition of The Lord of the Rings (1966) my father made substantial emendations to a passage in
The Two Towers, III 11 "The Palant├нr" (three-volume hardback edition p. 203), and some others in the same connection
in The Return of the King, V 7 "The Pyre of Denethor" (edition cited p. 132), though these emendations were not incor-
porated in the text until the second impression of the revised edition (1967). This section of the present book is derived
from writings on the palantiri associated with this revision; I have done no more than assemble them into a continuous
essay.



The Map of Middle-earth
My first intention was to include in this book the map that accompanies The Lord of the Rings with the addition
to it of further names; but i seemed to me on reflection that it would be better to copy my original map and take the
opportunity to remedy some of its minor defects (to remedy the major ones being beyond my powers). I have therefore
redrawn it fairly exactly, on a scale half as large again (that is to say, the new map as drawn is half as large again as the
old map in its published dimensions). The area shown is smaller, but the only features lost are the Havens of Umbar and
the Cape of Forochel.* This has allowed of a different and larger mode of lettering, and a great gain in clarity.
*
I have little doubt now that the water marked on my original map as "The Icebay of Forochel" was in fact
only a small part of the Bay (referred to in The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A I iii, as "immense"), which extended
 All the more important place-names that occur in this book but not in The Lord of the Rings are included, such
as Lond Daer, Dr├║waith Iaur, Edhellond, the Undeeps, Greylin; and a few others that might have been, or should have
been, shown on the original map, such as the rivers Harnen and Carnen, Ann├║minas, Eastfold, Westfold, the Mountains
of Angmar. The mistaken inclusion of Rhudaur alone has been corrected by the addition of Cardolan and Arthedain,
and I have shown the little island of Himling off the far north-western coast, which appears on one of my father's
sketch-maps and on my own first draft. Himling was the earlier form of Himring (the great hill on which Maedhros son
of F├лanor had his fortress in The Silmarillion), and though the fact is nowhere referred to it is clear that Himring's top
rose above the waters that covered drowned Beleriand. Some way to the west of it was a larger island named Tol Fuin,
which must be the highest part of Taur-nu-Fuin. In general, but not in all cases, I have preferred the Sindarin name (if
known), but I have usually given the translated name as well when that is much used. It may be noted that "The North
em Waste," marked at the head of my original map, seems in fact certainly to have been intended as an equivalent to
Forodwaith.*
I have thought it desirable to mark in the entire length of the Great Road linking Arnor and Gondor, although its
course between Edoras and the Fords of Isen is conjectural (as also is the precise placing of Lond Daer and Edhellond).
Lastly, I would emphasize that the exact preservation of the style and detail (other than nomenclature and
lettering) of the map that I made in haste twenty-five years ago does not argue any belief in the excellence of its
conception or execution. I have long regretted that my father never replaced it by one of his own making. However, as
things turned out it became, for all its defects and oddities, "the Map," and my father himself always used it as a basis
afterwards (while frequently noticing its inadequacies). The various sketch-maps that he made, and from which mine