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Eglarest to Balar "they mingled with
Turgon's outpost there." But this element in the story was rejected, and thus
in the published text of
The
Silmarillion there is no reference to the establishment of dwellings on Balar
by Elves from Gondolin.
14
The woods of Núath are not mentioned in
The Silmarillion and are not marked on the map that accompanies it.
They extended westward from the upper waters of the Narog towards the source
of the river Nenning.
15 Cf.
The Silmarillion pp. 209-10: "Finduilas daughter of Orodreth the King knew
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[Gwindor] and welcomed him, for she had loved him before the Nirnaeth, and so
greatly did Gwindor love her beauty that he named her
Faelivrin, which is the gleam of the sun on the pools of Ivrin."
16
The river Glithui is not mentioned in
The Silmarillion and is not named on the map, though it is shown: a tributary
of the Teiglin joining that river some way north of the inflowing of the
Malduin.
17
This road is referred to in
The Silmarillion, p.205; "The ancient road& that led through the long defile
of Sirion, past the isle where Minas Tirith of Finrod had stood, and so
through the land between Malduin and Sirion, and on through the eaves of
Brethil to the Crossings of Teiglin."
18
"Death to the
Glamhoth"'
This name, though it does not occur in
The Silmarillion or in
The Lord of the Rings,
was a general term in the Sindarin language for Orcs. The meaning is
"din-horde," "host of tumult"; cf. Gandalf's sword
Glamdring, and
Tol-in-Gaurhoth, the Isle of (the host of )Werewolves.
19
Echoriath:
the Encircling Mountains about the plain of Gondolin.
ered e·mbar nín:
the mountains of my home.
20 In
The Silmarillion, pp. 200-1, Beleg of Doriath said to Túrin (at a time some
years before that of the present narrative) that Orcs had made a road through
the Pass of Anach, "and Dimbar which used to be at peace is falling under the
Black Hand."
21
By this road Maeglin and Aredhel fled to Gondolin pursued by Eöl
(The Silmarillion ch. 16); and afterwards
Celegorm and Curufin took it when they were expelled from Nargothrond
(ibid.
p.176). Only in the present text is there any mention of its westward
extension to Turgon's ancient home at Vinyamar under Mount Taras; and its
course is not marked on the map from its junction with the old south road to
Nargothrond at the north-western edge of Brethil.
22 The name
Brithiach contains the element brith
"gravel," as also in the river
Brithon and the haven of
Brithombar.
23
In a parallel version of the text at this point, almost certainly rejected in
favour of the one printed, the travellers did not cross the Sirion by the Ford
of Brithiach, but reached the river several leagues to the north of it. "They
trod a toilsome path to the brink of the river, and there Voronwë cried: 'See
a wonder! Both good and ill does it forebode. Sirion is frozen, though no tale
tells of the like since the coming of the Eldar out of the East. Thus we may
pass and save many weary miles, too long for our strength. Yet thus also
others may have passed, or may follow.'" They crossed the river on the ice
unhindered, and "thus did the counsels of Ulmo turn the malice of the
Enemy to avail, for the way was shortened, and at the end of their hope and
strength Tuor and Voronwë came at last to the Dry River at its issuing from
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the skirts of the mountains."
24 Cf.
The Silmarillion p.125: "But there was a deep way under the mountains delved
in the darkness of the world by waters that flowed out to join the streams of
Sirion; and this way Turgon found, and so came to the green plain amid the
mountains, and saw the island-hill that stood there of hard smooth stone; for
the vale bad been a great lake in ancient days."
25
It is not said in
The Silmarillion that the great eagles ever dwelt on Thangorodrim. In ch. 13
(p.110) Manwë
"sent forth the race of Eagles, commanding them to dwell in the crags of the
North, and to keep watch upon
Morgoth"; while in ch. 18 (p.154) Thorondor "came hasting from his eyrie among
the peaks of the Crissaegrim"
for the rescue of Fingolfin's body before the gates of Angband, Cf. also
The Return of the King
VI 4: "Old
Thorondor, who built his eyries in the inaccessible peaks of the Encircling
Mountains when Middle-earth was young." In all probability the conception of
Thorondor's dwelling at first upon Thangorodrim, which is found also in an
early Silmarillion text, was later abandoned.
26
In
The Silmarillion nothing is said specifically concerning the speech of the
Elves of Gondolin; but this passage suggests that for some of them the High
Speech (Quenya) was in ordinary use. It is stated in a late linguistic essay
that Quenya was in daily use in Turgon's house, and was the childhood speech
of Eärendil; but that "for
most of the people of Gondolin it had become a language of books, and as the
other Noldor they used Sindarin in daily speech," Cf.
The Silmarillion p.129: after the edict of Thingol "the Exiles took the
Sindarin tongue in all their daily uses, and the High Speech of the West was
spoken only by the lords of the Noldor among themselves.
Yet that speech lived ever as a language of lore wherever any of that people
dwelt."
27
These were the flowers that bloomed abundantly on the burial mounds of the
Kings of Rohan below Edoras, and which Gandalf named in the language of the
Rohirrim (as translated into Old English)
simbel-mynë, that is
"Evermind," "for they blossom in all the seasons of the year, and grow where
dead men rest." (
The Two Towers
III 6.) The Elvish name uilos is only given in this passage, but the word is
found also in
Amon Uilos, as the
Quenya name
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