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light.

The text ends here (though manuscript pages written at the
same time continue on another subject, see (ii) below).
Turlin must have been a passing shift from Tuor (cf. the form
Tur that appears in texts of The Fall of Gondolin, II. 148), and
Turgon likewise; in the Tale Turgon is of course the name of the
King of Gondolin. This curious passing transference of a pri-
mary name in the legends may be compared with the brief sub-
stitution of Celegorm for Thingol and Maglor for Beren in the
Lay of Leithian (III. 159).
Particularly interesting is the account here of the origins of
Tuor's people: they came out of the East to the Battle of Un-
numbered Tears, but they came too late. This can hardly be

wholly unconnected with the coming of the Easterlings before
the battle in the later story. The genealogy of Tuor (Turlin,
Turgon) is here 'son of Peleg son of Indor son of Fengel'. In
The Fall of Gondolin he is 'son of Peleg son of Indor'
(II. 160); in the fragment of the Lay of the Fall of Gondolin he
is the son of Fengel, and in associated notes Tuor is himself
called Fengel (III. 145). His people are here the Tunglin, the
folk of the Harp, whereas in The Fall of Gondolin (ibid.) he
belongs to 'the house of the Swan of the sons of the Men of
the North'.
Also noteworthy is the opening of the present text where
Ulmo's desires and devisings ate described: his unceasing at-
tempts to persuade the Gnomes to send messengers to Valinor,
his isolation from the other Valar, his wish that the power of
Valinor should go against Melko in time. There does not ap-
pear to Le any other mention of Ulmo's attempting to arouse
the Gnomes to send messages to Valinor; and though his iso-
lation in his pity for the Gnomes in the Great Lands appears
strongly at the beginning of the tale of The Hiding of Valinor
g. 209), there Manwe and Varda beside Ulmo were opposed to
the withdrawal of Valinor from the fate of 'the world'.
Lastly, 'the Vale of Niniach' must be the site of the Battle
of Unnumbered Tears; cf. 'the Vale (Valley) of Weeping Wa-
ters' in the outlines for Gilfanon's Tale (I.230-40). Niniach
never occurs again in this application, though the way by
which Tuor went down to the sea came to be called Cirith
Ninniach, the Rainbow Cleft.

(ii).

The manuscript Turlin and the Exiles of Gondolin continues
(the paper and the handwriting are identical, and all were
placed together) with a further text of great interest, since it
represents the first step towards the later story of the coming
of the Noldor to Middle-earth since the outlines for Gilfanon's