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IV.

THE FIRST 'SILMARILLION'
MAP.

This map was made on a sheet of examination paper from the
University of Leeds (as was most of the A-text of the Lay of
the Children of Hurin, III. 4), which suggests that it originated
in association with the Lay, or perhaps rather with the 'Sketch
of the Mythology' which was written to accompany it (p. 11).
On the other hand, some names which seem to belong with the
first making of the map do not appear in the texts before the
Quenta. Though it was not drawn initially in a way that would
suggest that my father intended it to endure, it was his working
map for several years, and it was much handled and much al-
tered. Names were emended and places re-sited; the writing is
m red ink, black ink, green ink, pencil, and blue crayon, often
overlaying each other. Lines representing contours and others
representing streams tangle with lines for redirection and lines
cancelling other lines. But it is striking that the river-courses as
drawn on this first map were scarcely changed at all after-
wards.
Associated with the map are two supplementary sheets,
giving an Eastern and a Western extension to the main or cen-
tral map; these are reproduced and annotated subsequently (see
insert). The main map is on a single sheet but is here repro-
duced in two halves, Northern and Southern. Names that were
written in red ink all seem to belong to the original 'layer' of
names, as do some (e.g. Huan, Mavwin, Turgon) of those in
black ink; but Taiglin, Geleidhian, in red, do not otherwise oc-
cur before the Quenta. Those in green ink are few: Broseliand;
Gnomes on the Northern half beside Gondolin, and on the
Southern half beside Nargothrond; and Wandering Gnomes in
the South-east.

In the following alphabetically-ordered list I take each half
in turn* and comment on almost every item, noticing especial-
ly where the name in question first appears in the narrative
texts.

The Northern HaIf of the Map.

Aglon, Gorge of The name itself is a hasty later addition. The
Gorge of Aglon first occurs in the Lay of Leithian (lines
2062, 2995, passages composed in 1928). In the Lay and in
Q ($$9, 10) the Gorge is the dwelling of the Sons of Feanor,
who are placed on the map to the North of it (and circled
with an arrow directing to the East).

Angband The placing of Angband in relation to Thangoro-