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PART TWO.

THE LATER
QUENTA SILMARILLION.

THE LATER QUENTA SILMARILLION.

In Part Two I shall trace the development of the Quenta Silmarillion,
in the years following the completion of The Lord of the Rings, from
the point reached in Vol.X, p. 199; but the history now becomes (for
the most part) decidedly simpler: much of the development can be
conveyed by recording individually all the significant changes made to
QS, and there is no need to divide it into two 'phases', as was done in
Vol.X. The basic textual series is QS (so far as it went before its
abandonment); the early amanuensis typescript 'LQ 1' of 1951, for
which see X.141-3; and the late amanuensis typescript 'LQ 2' of
about 1958, for which see X.141-2, 300.
In this latter part of the history the chapter-numbers become rather
confusing, but I think that it would be more confusing to have none,
and therefore I continue the numbering used in Vol.X, where the last
chapter treated, Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor, was
given the number 8.

9. OF MEN.

This chapter was numbered 7 in the QS manuscript (for the text see
V.245-7, $$81-7). The difference is simply due to the fact that the
three 'sub-chapters' in QS numbered in Vol.V 3(a), 3(b), and 3(c) were
in Vol.X called 3, 4, and 5 (see X.299). Few changes were made to the
QS manuscript in later revision, and those that were made were
incorporated in LQ 1. That typescript received no alterations, and is of
textual value in only a few respects; the typist of LQ 2 did not use it,
but worked directly from the old manuscript.
$81. 'The Valar sat now behind the mountains and feasted' > 'Thus
the Valar sat now behind their mountains in peace'.
$82. The placing of Hildorien 'in the uttermost East of Middle-earth
that lies beside the eastern sea' was changed to: 'in the midmost
parts of Middle-earth beyond the Great River and the Inner Sea, in
regions which neither the Eldar nor the Avari have known'.
Many phrases have been used of the site of Hildorien. In the
'Annals' tradition it was 'in the East of the world' (IV.269, V.118,
125), but this was changed on the manuscript of AV 2 to 'in the
midmost regions of the world' (V.120, note 13). In the Quenta it
was 'in the East of East' (IV.99), and in QS, as cited above, 'in the
uttermost East of Middle-earth': in my commentary on QS (V.248) I
suggested that this last was not in contradiction with the changed



reading of AV 2: 'Hildorien was in the furthest east of Middle-earth,