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Here the text ends abruptly and near the top of a new page;
it is clear that no more was written.
The Noldorin house has still not emerged, but we have a
king Gelmir of the Gnomes, with his sons Golfin, Delin,
Luthien (the last emended from Oleg), captains of his three ar-
mies. There is no suggestion that Feanor and his sons were as-
sociated with these in any sort of close kinship. In the
fragment of the Lay of the Fall of Gondolin (see III. 146-7)
there appears - for the first time - Fingolfin, who steps into
Finwe Noleme's place as the father of Turgon and Isfin, but is
not the son of Finwe, rather of Gelmir. I have suggested there
that this Gelmir, father of Golfin/Fingolfin, is to be identified
with Finwe, father of Fingolfin in the alliterative poems and
later; and it may be that the name Gelmir is formally con-
nected with Fin-golma, which in the outlines-for Gilfanon's
Tale is another name for Finwe Noleme g. 238-9, and see
I. 263, entry Noleme). It is to be remembered that Finwe
Noleme was not in the earliest legend the father of Feanor and
was not slain by Melko in Valinor, but came to the Great
Lands. - Of the other sons of Gelmir named in the present
text, Delin and Luthien, there is no trace elsewhere.
It is certainly clear that Golfin here is the first appearaace of

Fingolfin, and by the same token that this text preceded the
abandoned beginning of the Lay of the Fall of Gondolin. On
the other hand, the obscure story of the death of Feanor in the
earliest outlines g. 238 - 9) has disappeared, and though the
present text breaks off too soon for certainty it seems ex-
tremely probable that, had my father continued it a little fur-
ther, we should have learned of Feanor's death in battle with
the Orcs whom he and his companions had aroused in the val-
ley where they were encamped It may be, too, that we should
have had an explanation of the puzzling lines of the Lay
(III. 146):

'Twas the bent blades of the Glamhoth that drank
Fiagolfin's life as he stood alone by Feanor.

We are in any case here still a long way from the story of the
divided hosts and the treachery of Feanor.
The encampment of Mithrim (Asgon) is refened to already
in the early outlines, but in the later of these there is mention
g. 239) of the first devising of weapons by the Gnomes at this
time, whereas in the present text they are said to have brought
great store of arms 'out of Valinor and the armouries of
Makar'. Here also appears the earliest form of the idea of the
flowers springing beneath the marching feet of the Gnomish
host.