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17. Paragraph $10 had this form in the draft text for the beginning of
AAm:
It hath been computed by the Masters of Lore that the Valar

came to the Kingdom of Arda, which is this Earth, five and
forty thousand years of our time ere the first rising of the
Moon. And of these thirty thousand passed ere the measure-
ment of Time began with the flowering of the Trees. These
were the Days before Days. And fifteen thousand years fol-
lowed after during which the Light of the Trees yet lived, and
nigh on six hundred more of the New Sun and Moon after the
slaying of the Trees. And these are called the Elder Days, and
with their ending ended the First Age of Time, and Melkor was
thrust from the world.

Thus whereas in AV 1 and AV 2 the reckoning was thus (V.Y. =
Valian Year(s), S.Y. = Sun Year(s)):
V.Y. 1000 = S.Y. 10000 First flowering of the Trees
V.Y. 3000 = S.Y. 30000 Rising of the Moon
this first revision gives:
S.Y. 30000 First flowering of the Trees
S.Y. 45000 Rising of the Moon
This reckoning was then replaced again:
V.Y. 3500 = S.Y. 33530 First flowering of the Trees
V.Y. 5300 = S.Y. 50775 Rising of the Moon
These figures show a ratio of 1 V.Y. = 9-58 S.Y. (see the com-
mentary on ($5 - 10, pp. 59 - 60). This last reckoning was the
form in AAm as first written, which was then changed many
times to give the text printed.
18. The text as written had 'dark as the night that was before Ea',
changed later to 'dark as the Night of the Void'.
19. The text as first written had 'over the borders of Ea'; this was
changed later to 'over the Walls of the Night upon the borders of
Arda', and then 'upon the borders of Arda' was struck out.
20. The text was first written 'far from the light of Illuin'.
21. The text as written had 'which is westernmost of all lands' and
'look upon the Outer Sea that encircles the kingdom of Arda'; the
changes to the past tense were perhaps made at the time of
writing, since the next phrase, 'and beyond were the Walls of the
Night', had the past tense as written. On the other hand, the
following sentence has the present tense ('But the east shores of
Aman are the uttermost end of the Great Sea of the West'), where
are was allowed to stand.

Commentary on the first section of the
Annals of Aman.

$$1-3 On the occurrence of the name Eru see p. 7. The account of
the interrelations of the Valar and the queens of the Valar
remains closely based on that in AV 2 (V.110), and retains old