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was derived, are now a part of the history of the writing of The Lord of the Rings. I have thought it best therefore, so far
as my own contribution to these matters extends, to let my original design stand, since it does at least represent the
structure of my father's conceptions with tolerable faithfulness.




much further to the north-east: its northern and western shores being formed by the great Cape of Forochel, of which
the tip, unnamed, appears on my original map. In one of my father's map-sketches the northern coast of Middle-earth is
shown stretching in a great curve east-north-east from the Cape, the most northerly point being some 700 miles north of
Cam D├╗m.
*
Forodwaith only occurs once in The Lord of the Rings (Appendix A I iii) and there refers to ancient
inhabitants of the Northlands, of whom the Snowmen of Forochel were a remnant; but the Sindarin word (g)waith was
used both of regions and of the peoples inhabiting them (cf. Enedwaith). In one of my father's sketch-maps Forodwaith
seems to be explicitly equated with "The Northern Waste," and in another is translated "Northerland."
 PART ONE:
THE FIRST AGE
 I
OF TUOR AND HIS
COMING TO GONDOLIN
R├нan, wife of Huor, dwelt with the people of the House of Hador; but when rumour came to Dor-l├│min of the
Nirnaeth Arnoediad, and yet she could hear no news of her lord, she became distraught and wandered forth
into the wild alone. There she would have perished, but the Grey-elves came to her aid. For there was a
dwelling of this people in the mountains westward of Lake Mithrim; and thither they led her, and she was
there delivered of a son before the end of the Year of Lamentation.
And R├нan said to the Elves: "Let him be called Tuor, for that name his father chose, ere war came
between us. And I beg of you to foster him, and to keep him hidden in your care; for I forebode that great
good, for Elves and Men, shall come from him. But I must go in search of Huor, my lord."
Then the Elves pitied her; but one Annael, who alone of all that went to war from that people had
returned from the Nirnaeth, said to her: "Alas, lady, it is known now that Huor fell at the side of H├║rin his
brother; and he lies, I deem, in the great hill of slain that the Orcs have raised upon the field of battle."
Therefore R├нan arose and left the dwelling of the Elves, and she passed through the land of Mithrim
and came at last to the Haudhen-Ndengin in the waste of Anfauglith, and there she laid her down and died.
But the Elves cared for the infant son of Huor, and Tuor grew up among them; and he was fair of face, and
golden-haired after the manner of his father's kin, and he became strong and tall and valiant, and being
fostered by the Elves he had lore and skill no less than the princes of the Edain, ere ruin came upon the
North.

But with the passing of the years the life of the former folk of Hithlum, such as still remained. Elves or
Men, became ever harder and more perilous. For as is elsewhere told, Morgoth broke his pledges to the
Easterlings that had served him, and he denied to them the rich lands of Beleriand which they had coveted,
and be drove away these evil folk into Hithlum, and there commanded them to dwell. And though they loved
Morgoth no longer, they served him still in fear, and hated all the Elven-folk; and they despised the remnant
of the House of Hador (the aged and women and children, for the most part), and they oppressed them, and
wedded their women by force, and took their lands and goods, and enslaved their children. Orcs came and
went about the land as they would, pursuing the lingering Elves into the fastnesses of the mountains, and
taking many captive to the mines of Angband to labour as the thralls of Morgoth.
Therefore Annael led his small people to the caves of Androth, and there they lived a hard and wary
life, until Tuor was sixteen years of age and was become strong and able to wield arms, the axe and bow of