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N├║menor. Only names or features found on the original have been entered on the redrawing. In addition, the original
shows another haven on the Bay of And├║ni├л, not far to the westward of And├║ni├л itself; the name is hard to read, but is
almost certainly Almaida. This does not, so far as I am aware, occur elsewhere.

II
Aldarion and Erendis
This story was left in the least developed state of all the pieces in this collection, and has in places required a
degree of editorial rehandling that made me doubt the propriety of including it. However, its very great interest as the
single story (as opposed to records and annals) that survived at all from the long ages of N├║menor before the narrative
of its end (the Akallab├кth), and as a story unique in its content among my father's writings, persuaded me that it would
be wrong to omit it from this collection of "Unfinished Tales."
To appreciate the necessity for such editorial treatment it must be explained that my father made much use, in
the composition of narrative, of "plot-outlines," paying meticulous attention to the dating of events, so that these
outlines have something of the appearance of annal-entries in a chronicle. In the present case there are no less than five
of these schemes, varying constantly in their relative fullness at different points and not infrequently disagreeing with
each other at large and in detail. But these schemes always had a tendency to move into pure narrative, especially by the
introduction of short passages of direct speech; and in the fifth and latest of the outlines for the story of Aldarion and
Erendis the narrative element is so pronounced that the text runs to some sixty manuscript pages.
This movement away from a staccato annalistic style in the present tense into fullblown narrative was however
very gradual, as the writing of the outline progressed; and in the earlier part of the story I have rewritten much of the
material in the attempt to give some degree of stylistic homogeneity throughout its course. This rewriting is entirely a
matter of wording, and never alters meaning or introduces unauthentic elements.
The latest "scheme," the text primarily followed, is entitled The Shadow of the Shadow: the Tale of the Mariner's
Wife; and the Tale of the Queen Shepherdess. The manuscript ends abruptly, and I can offer no certain explanation of
why my father abandoned it. A typescript made to this point was completed in January 1965. There exists also a
typescript of two pages that I judge to be the latest of all these materials; it is evidently the beginning of what was to be
a finished version of the whole story, and provides the text on pp. 181-5 in this book (where the plot-outlines are at
their most scanty). It is entitled Indis i тАв Kiryamo "The Mariner's Wife": a tale of ancient N├║menor├л, which tells of the
first rumour of the Shadow.
At the end of this narrative (p. 215) I have set out such scanty indications as can be given of the further course of
the story..

III
The Line of Elros: Kings of N├║menor
Though in form purely a dynastic record, I have included this because it is an important document for the history
of the Second Age, and a great part of the extant material concerning that Age finds a place in the texts and commentary
in this book. It is a fine manuscript in which the dates of the Kings and Queens of N├║menor and of their reigns have
been copiously and sometimes obscurely emended: I have endeavoured to give the latest formulation. The text
introduces several minor chronological puzzles, but also allows clarification of some apparent errors in the Appendices
to The Lord of the Rings.
The genealogical table of the earlier generations of the Line of Elros is taken from several closely-related tables
that derive from the same period as the discussion of the laws of succession in N├║menor (pp. 218-9). there are some
slight variations in minor names: thus Vardilm├л appears also as Vardily├л, and Y├бvien as Y├бvi├л. The forms given in m)
table I believe to be later.




IV
The History of Galadriel and Celeborn