Morgoth's Ring Read Free Page B

which Valinor is part
    Melkor 5
    Arda Elvish name of Earth = our world. Also Kingdom of Arda =
    fenced region. Field of Arda.
    Illuin Lamp of North = Helkar 6
    Ormal Lamp of South = Ringil 6
    Isle of Almaren in the Great Lake
    Valaróma = Horn of Oromë
    Eru = Ilúvatar
    Ëa = Universe of that which Is

    Not all these names were newly devised at this time, of course: thus Eru and Arda go back to my father's work on The Notion Club Papers and The Drowning of Anadûnê , as also does Aman (where however it was the Adûnaic name of Manwë).
    In Ainulindalë C appear Arda , Melkor , and Pelóri , but the Lamps are called Foros and Hyaras , not Illuin and Ormal , and the Isle in the Great Lake is Almar , not Almaren . The final text D, as originally written, has Atani , Almaren and Aman , but Aman did not mean the Blessed Realm; the Lamps are named Forontë and Hyarantë , and the Horn of Oromë is Rombaras . These differences from the '1951
    list' show that Ainulindalë D was made before that time.
    I give now the text of Ainulindalë C in full. Since despite radical changes in the structure and the addition of much new material a good deal of the old form does survive, it is not really necessary to do so, but to give it partly in the form of textual notes would make the development very difficult to follow; and Ainulindalë C is an important document in the history of the mythological conception of the created Universe. The remodelling that constituted C out of B was in fact done at different times, and is in places chaotic, full of changes and substitutions; I do not attempt to disentangle the different layers, but give the final form after all changes, with a few developments that took place while C was in the making recorded in the notes that follow the text (p. 22). I have numbered the paragraphs as a convenient means of reference subsequently.

    MORGOTH`S RING - AINULINDALË - Version C - 8

    On the title-page the original words 'This was written by Rúmil of Tûn'
    (V.156) were extended thus:
    This was written by Rúmil of Túna
    and was told to Ælfwine in Eressëa
    (as he records)
    by Pengoloð the Sage
    The form Túna for Tûn as the name of the city came in with the earliest layer of emendation to QS (pre- Lord of the Rings , see V.225, §39). Since the city is Tirion in The Lord of the Rings it might be thought that this extension of the title was made in the earlier period; but in a later version of the title-page (p. 30) my father retained 'Rúmil of Túna', and in the Annals of Aman he frequently used Túna (beside Tirion ) in general reference to 'the city on the hill' (sec p. 90, §67).
    It is not said in any of the title-pages to the texts of the earlier period that Pengoloð (Pengolod) actually instructed Ælfwine himself; he is cited as the author 7
    of works which Ælfwine saw and translated.

    The Music of the Ainur
    and the Coming of the Valar

    These are the words that Pengoloð8 spake to Ælfwine concerning the beginning of the World.
    §1 There was Ilúvatar, the All-father, and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made. And he spoke to them, propounding to them themes of music, and they sang before him, and he was glad. But for a long while they sang only each alone, or but few together, while the rest hearkened; for each comprehended only that part of the mind of Iluvatar from which he came, and in the understanding of their brethren they grew but slowly. Yet ever as they listened they came to deeper understanding, and increased in unison and harmony.
    §2 And it came to pass that Ilúvatar called together all the Ainur, and declared to them a mighty theme, unfolding to them things greater and more wonderful than he had yet revealed; and the glory of its beginning and the splendour of its end amazed the Ainur, so that they bowed before Ilúvatar and were silent.
    §3 Then said Ilúvatar: 'Of the theme that I have