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11. OF BELERIAND AND ITS REALMS.

In Volume V (p. 407) I wrote as follows about the second Silmarillion
map:
The second map of Middle-earth west of the Blue Mountains in the
Elder Days was also the last. My father never made another; and
over many years this one became covered all over with alterations
and additions of names and features, not a few of them so hastily or
faintly pencilled as to be more or less obscure....
The original element in the map can however be readily perceived
from the fine and careful pen (all subsequent change was roughly
done); and I give here on four successive pages a reproduction of the
map as it was originally drawn and lettered....
The map is on four sheets, originally pasted together but now
separate, in which the map-squares do not entirely coincide with the
sheets. In my reproductions I have followed the squares rather than
the original sheets. I have numbered the squares horizontally right
across the map from 1 to 15, and lettered them vertically from A to M, so
that each square has a different combination of letter and figure for
subsequent reference. I hope later to give an account of all changes
made to the map afterwards, using these redrawings as a basis.

This I will now do, before turning to the changes made to the chapter
Of Beleriand and its Realms. On the following pages are reproduced
the same four redrawings as were given in V.408-11, but with the
subsequent alterations and additions introduced (those cases where I
cannot interpret at all faint pencillings are simply ignored). Correc-
tions to names (as Nan Tathrin > Nan Tathren, Nan Dungorthin >
Nan Dungortheb, Rathlorion > Rathloriel) are replaced, not shown


as corrections. It is to be remembered that, as I have said, all later
changes were roughly done, some of them mere scribbled indications,
and also that they were made at many different times, in pencil,
coloured pencil, blue, black and red ink, and red, green and blue
ball-point pen; so that the appearance of the actual map is very
different from these redrawings. I have however retained the placing
of the new lettering in almost all cases as accurately as possible.

There follows here a list, square by square, of features and names
where some explanation or reference seems desirable; but this is by no
means an exhaustive inventory of all later alterations and additions,
many of which require no comment.

1. North-western section (p. 182).

(1) A 4 - 5. The mountain-chain is a mere zigzag line pencilled in a
single movement, as also are the mountains on A 7 (extending
east to the peaks encircling Thangorodrim on section 2, A 8).
(2) B 4 to C 4. The name Dor-Lomen was almost illegibly scribbled