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FOOTNOTES<br />

Preface<br />

* ‘The Lost Tales’ is the name of the original versions of the legends of The Silmarillion.<br />

The Return of Beren and Lúthien According to the Quenta Noldorinwa<br />

* A later version of the story concerning the Nauglamír told that it had been made by craftsmen of the<br />

Dwarves long before for Felagund, and that it was the sole treasure that Húrin brought from<br />

Nargothrond and gave to Thingol. The task that Thingol then set the Dwarves was to remake the<br />

Nauglamír and in it to set the Silmaril that was in his possession. This is the form of the story in the<br />

published Silmarillion.<br />

* The manner of Lúthien’s death is marked for correction; subsequently my father wrote against it:<br />

‘Yet it hath been sung that Lúthien alone of Elves hath been numbered among our race, and goeth<br />

whither we go to a fate beyond the world.’<br />

Extract from the Lost Tale of the Nauglafring<br />

* Earlier in the tale, when Naugladur was preparing to leave Menegroth, he declared that Gwendelin<br />

the queen of Artanor (Melian) must go with him to Nogrod: to which she replied: ‘Thief and<br />

murderer, child of Melko, yet art thou a fool, for thou canst not see what hangs over thine own<br />

head.’

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