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of The Drowning of Anadune. All account and discussion of the
evolution of the works is reserved to commentaries and appen-
dages which are easily identified.
In view of the great disparity between Part One and Parts
Two and Three I have thought that it would be helpful to divide
the Index into two, since there is scarcely any overlap of names.

I acknowledge with many thanks the help of Dr Judith Priest-
man of the Bodleian Library, and of Mr Charles B. Elston of
Marquette Unversity, in making available photographs for use
in this book (from the Bodleian those on pages 42 and 138-41,
from Marquette those on pages 19 and 130). Mr John D.
Rateliff and Mr F. R. Williamson have very kindly assisted me
on particular points in connection with The Notion Club
Papers; and Mr Charles Noad has again generously given his
time to an independent reading of the proofs and checking of
citations.
This book is dedicated to Taum Santoski, in gratitude for his
support and encouragement throughout my work on The Lord
of the Rings and in recognition of his long labour in the
ordering and preparation for copying of the manuscripts at
Marquette, a labour which despite grave and worsening illness
he drove himself to complete.

Since this book was set in type Mr Rateliff has pointed out to
me the source of Arundel Lowdham's allusion to 'the Pig on the
Ruined Pump' (p. 179), which escaped me, although my father
knew the work from which it comes well, and its verses formed
part of his large repertoire of occasional recitation. It derives
from Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno, chapter X - where
however the Pig sat beside, not on, the Pump:
There was a Pig, that sat alone,
Beside a ruined Pump.
By day and night he made his moan:

It would have stirred a heart of stone
To see him wring his hoofs and groan,
Because he could not jump.
In Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, chapter XXIII, this becomes
the first verse of a poem called The Pig-Tale, at the end of which
the Pig, encouraged by a passing Frog, tries but signally fails to
jump to the top of the Pump:
Uprose that Pig, and rushed, full whack,
Against the ruined Pump:
Rolled over like an empty sack,
And settled down upon his back,
While all his bones at once went 'Crack!'
It was a fatal jump.

On a very different subject, Mr Noad has observed and