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but it was in the middle regions of the world; see Ambarkanta map
IV, on which Hildorien is marked (IV.249).'
In the texts of the post-Lord of the Rings period there is the
statement in the Grey Annals (GA) $57 that it was 'in the midmost
regions of the world', as in the emended reading of AV 2; and there
is the new phrase in the revision of QS, 'in the midmost parts of
Middle-earth beyond the Great River and the Inner Sea' (with loss
of the mention in the original text of 'the eastern sea'). This last
shows unambiguously that a change had taken place, but it is very
hard to say what it was. It cannot be made to agree with the old
Ambarkanta maps: one might indeed doubt that those maps carried
much validity for the eastern regions by this time, and wonder
whether by 'the Inner Sea' my father was referring to 'the Inland Sea
of Rhun' (see The Treason of Isengard pp. 307, 333) - but on the
other hand, in the Annals of Aman (X.72, 82) from this same period
the Great Journey of the Elves from Kuivienen ('a bay in the Inland
Sea of Helkar') is described in terms that suggest that the old
conception was still fully present. Can the Sea of Rhun be identified
with the Sea of Helkar, vastly shrunken? - Nor is it easy to
understand how Hildorien 'in the midmost parts of Middle-earth'
could be 'in regions which neither the Eldar nor the Avari have
known'.
In LQ 2 most of the revised passage is absent, and the text reads
simply: 'in the land of Hildorien in the midmost parts of Middle-
earth; for measured time had come upon Earth ...' If this is
significant, it must depend on a verbal direction from my father. On
the other hand, the revision was written on the manuscript in two
parts: 'in the midmost parts' in the margin and the remainder on
another part of the page, where it would be possible to miss it; and I
think this much the likeliest explanation.
$83. The opening of the footnote (V.245) was changed from 'The
Eldar called them Hildi to Atani they were called in Valinor, but
the Eldar called them also Hildi'; and 'the birth of the Hildi' was
changed to the arising of the Hildi . For Atani see GA $57 and
commentary. As frequently before, the typist of LQ 1 placed the
footnote in the body of the text, where my father left it to stand; but
it reappears as a footnote to LQ 2 - a first indication that the
typescript was taken from the QS manuscript.
After 'those fathers of Men' (in which the f should not have been
capitalised) was added 'the Atanatardi'. Here LQ 1 has Atanatarni,
which was not corrected; while LQ 2 - based not on LQ 1 but on
the manuscript - has Atanatardi. But the form Atanatarni occurs in
the Narn text given in Note 2 to Part One: there Fingon before the
beginning of the Battle of Unnumbered Tears cries Aiya Eldalie ar
Atanatarni (p. 166). In GA $87, in a different passage, the form is

Atanatari (which was adopted in The Silmarillion); cf. also Atana-
tarion, X.373.
$85. The sentence 'Only in the realm of Doriath, whose queen
Melian was of divine race, did the Ilkorins come near to match the