The War of the Jewels (43 page)

There are two genealogical tables of the House of Beor that relate closely to the new chapter and almost certainly belong to the same period (this is strongly suggested by the fact that a group of Elvish genealogies, closely resembling in form those of the Edain, is accompanied by notes dated December 1959). The two tables were obviously made at the same time. The first ('Beor table I') was written neatly and clearly; it differs from the second in many of the dates and in its presentation of the descendants of Boron (grandson of Beor the Old), thus:

Boron

Beleth Boromir Belegor Bregor Bregil

Bregolas Beldis Barahir Bar agund Belegund

Names in italics show members of the House of Beor who have not appeared before; of these Beleth, Bregil, and Beldis are marked on the table as daughters. Subsequent alterations, carried out in complex stages, brought the genealogy to the fuller form that it has in 'Beor table II'; of these changes the most notable is the replacement of Boromir's daughter Bregil (who is moved down a generation) by Andreth, the first appearance of the name. The only other point to notice in table I is that Morwen was named Eledhwen (with Edelwen, as in table II, added above).

Beor table II took up all the changes made to I, and I have redrawn it on p. 231 in the form in which it was first made. The numerals added to certain of the names indicate the rulers of the House in their order.

It is seen from this genealogy that Boron was indeed the son of Baran ('Beor the Young'); and that Bereg the dissident ($18), in the text said only to be 'of the House of Beor', was the son of Baranor son of Baran, and thus a great-grandson of Beor the Old. It is seen also that the further extension of the House of Beor that appears in the Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth (X.305-6) was now present, with Andreth the sister of Bregor, and Belen the second son of Beor the Old, father of Beldir (not previously named), father of Belemir the husband of Adanel. (Adanel is here said to be the daughter of Malach Aradan, son of Marach, whereas in the Athrabeth she is the sister of Hador Lorindol: on this see p. 235.)

A few changes were made subsequently, at different times, to Beor table II, as follows:

- (Bar Beora) added after 'The House of Beor';

- Boron's dates changed to 315-408, and Boromir's birth to 338;

- the name Saelin pencilled beside Andreth, and also 'A[ndreth) the Wise',

- a remote descent from Beleth, sister of Baragund and Belegund, indicated, leading to Erendis of Numenor;

- a daughter Hiril, sister of Beren One-hand, given to Barahir and Emeldir.

On the name Saelin beside Andreth see p. 233. With the descent of Erendis of Numenor from Beleth daughter of Bregolas cf. Aldarion and Erendis in Unfinished Tales, p. 177, where it is said of Beregar the father of Erendis that he 'came of the House of Beor': in my note on this (p. 214, note 10) I referred to her descent as given in the present genealogical table, but gave her ancestor's name wrongly as 'Bereth'.

Some of the later dates in the table differ from those in other sources. The first death of Beren is placed under 466 in the texts of The Tale of Years: 465 is a reversion to the date in AB 2 (see p. 131, $203).

The second death of Beren, in the table dated 501, was placed in AB 2

in 503, while in The Tale of Years it is given as 505, then reverting to 503 (pp. 346, 348). In GA Bregolas was born in 400, Barahir in 402, Baragund in 424, and Belegund in 428 (these were the original dates going back to the earliest Annals of Beleriand, allowing for the extension by one and then by two centuries in subsequent versions; see the genealogical table in IV.315).

On the much changed date of the Second Kinslaying (here given as 511), in which Dior Thingol's heir was slain in fighting with the Feanorians and his young sons Eldun and Elrun were taken and abandoned to starve in the forest, see The Tale of Years, pp. 345 ff.; it is plainly a mere inadvertence that in the same table the date of their death is given as 506, five years before that of Dior. In (later) sources Eldun and Elrun are twin brothers, born in the year 500 (see p. 257

and note 16 on p. 300; p. 349)-

(ii) The House of Hador.

In the old history of the Edain, now rejected, Hador the Goldenhaired, third of 'the Fathers of the Men of the West', was born in Eriador in 390, and came over the Blue Mountains into Beleriand in 420. Unlike the development in the House of Beor, however, Hador (Glorindol, $31) retained his chronological place in the history (as will be seen shortly, his original birth-date remained the same), and his sons Galdor (< Galion < Gumlin) and Gundor; but with the much earlier date of 'the Coming of Men into the West' he was moved downwards in the genealogy, to become the ruler of the people in the fourth generation from Marach, under whose leadership they had entered Beleriand in 313 (commentary on $13). His father was Hathol, son of Magor, son of Malach, son of Marach ($31).

As with the House of Beor, there are here also two genealogical tables closely related to the new conception. The earlier of these ('Hador table I') was made on my father's old typewriter using his

'midget type' (VIII.233). It was a good deal altered by revision of dates, and by additions, but these latter chiefly concern the extension of the genealogy to include the descendants of Hurin and Huor, with whom the table ended in the form as typed: the structure of the descent from the ancestor was far less changed than in the case of Beor table I, and indeed the only addition here was the incorporation of Amlach, one of the leaders of discontent in Estolad, who is said in the text of the chapter ($18) to have been 'one of the grandsons of Marach'.

Changes were also made to the names of the Haladin who appear in the genealogy.

A fair copy in manuscript ('Hador table II'), identical in appearance to the tables of the House of Beor, followed, no doubt immediately, and this I have redrawn on p. 234, in the form in which it was made (i.e. omitting subsequent alterations). I notice here some points arising from these tables.

The date of Marach's entry into Beleriand differs by one year (314

for 313) from that given in the chapter (commentary on $13); table I had 315 altered to 314. In table I Marach's son Imlach, father of Amlach, is named Imrach.

In agreement with the genealogical tables of the House of Beor, Adanel wife of Belemir is the daughter of Malach Aradan; in Hador table I it was said that Adanel 'wedded Belemir of the House of Beor, and he joined the people of Aradan', the last words being struck out.

It is also said in table I that Beren (I) was the fifth child of Adanel and Belemir; and that Emeldir was the third child of Beren.

In Hador table I there is the statement that 'the other children of Aradan' (i.e. beside Adanel and Magor) 'are not named in the Chronicles'. In table II a third child of Malach Aradan was named, however: 'Sael .. th the Wise 344', together with the mention of

'others not concerned in these Chronicles'; Sael .. th was first changed to Saelon, and then the name and the birth-date were struck out, so that the middle letters of the first name cannot be read. This was probably done at the time of the making of the table. Saelon appears in draft material for the Athrabeth (X.351 - 2) as the name of Andreth, replaced in the finished text (X.305) by Saelind ('the Eldar called her Saelind, Wise-heart ). In this sister of Magor and Adanel is seen, very probably, the first hint of the Athrabeth; subsequently, when my father perceived that the wise-women came of different houses of the Edain, with different 'lore and traditions' (X.305), he wrote Saelin and Andreth the Wise against the name Andreth in Beor table II (p. 230). It seems a possibility that Adanel and Andreth were already present in the genealogies before their significance as 'wise-women' emerged.

In Hador table I Hador was named Glorindol, as in the text of the chapter ($31), emended to Lorindol, the form in table II. - I do not know why Gundor's death should be dated (in both I and II) a year later (456) than that of his father Hador. All the sources state that they both died at Eithel Sirion.

The 'double marriage' of Hador's daughter and elder son, named Glorwendil and Galion, to the son (Hundor) and daughter (unnamed) of Haleth the Hunter had already emerged in the Grey Annals (see the commentary on $$161, 171, pp. 126, 128). Now named Gloredel and Galdor, the double marriage remains, but with the entire reconstitu-tion of the People of Haleth the chronological place of Haleth the Hunter had been taken by Halmir: it is now his son Haldir and his daughter Hareth who marry Gloredel and Galdor.*

The date of Hurin's death is given as '500?' in table I ('501?' in table II).

Tuor's name Eladar is translated 'Starfather' in table I, and in addition he is named Ulmondil; the form Irilde was added after Idril (so spelt): see II.343 and V.366-7 (stem KYELEP); and to Earendil was added 'whose name was foretold by Ulmo'.

For Urwen Lalaeth see Unfinished Tales pp. 57-9.

In hasty pencillings on Hador table II the note saying that Magor and Hathol served no Elf-lord but dwelt near the sources of Teiglin, and that Hador was the first lord of Dor-lomin, was struck out; while at the same time Hador Lorindol first lord of Dorlomin was written above Magor (the Sword), and Magor Dagorlind the Sword singer in battle above Hador Lorindol. This reversal has been seen already in emendations made to the carbon copy only of the text of the chapter (pp. 225 - 6, $$16, 31-2 - where my father changed Glorindol, not to Lorindol, but to Glorindal). That this was not an ephemeral change is seen from the Athrabeth, where Adanel is the sister of Hador Lorindol, not of Magor.

I do not know of any statement elsewhere that bears on this change, but the words 'first lord of Dorlomin' that (so to speak) accompanied Hador's movement back by half a century are evidently significant, suggesting that my father had in mind to place Fingolfin's gift of the lordship of Dorlomin much earlier: he had said both in the text of the chapter and in the genealogical table that Malach (whose son was now Hador Lorindol) passed fourteen years in Hithlum. This change would not of itself entail the reversal of the names Magor and Hador; but the House of Hador was a name so embedded in the tradition that my father would not lose it even when Hador was no longer the first ruler in Beleriand, while on the other hand the importance and illustriousness of that house was closely associated with the lordship of Dorlomin - in other words, the name must accompany the first lordship. But it seems that he never wrote anything further on the matter, nor made any other alterations to the existing texts in the light of it.

The only other change made to Hador table 11 (it was made also to table I) was the writing of the name Ardamir above Earendil.

(* In table I the son of Halmir was still Hundor, and his daughter was Hiriel.

Hiriel was changed to Hareth; and Hundor was changed to Hundar before reaching Haldir. See pp. 236-7.)

(iii) The Haladin.

This house of the Edain underwent the greatest change, since in this case the original 'Father' Haleth the Hunter disappeared, and of the Haladin (a name that first occurs in this new chapter, $10) it is said ($24) that they 'did not live under the rule of lords or many together'.

The name Haleth now becomes that of the formidable Lady Haleth, daughter of Haldad, who had become the leader when the Haladin were attacked by Orcs in Thargelion. In the genealogical table of the House of Hador Halmir occupies the place in the history formerly taken by Haleth the Hunter, and it was his son and daughter who married the son and daughter of Hador Goldenhead.

A genealogical table of the Haladin exists in a single copy (preceded by rough workings in which the names were moved about in a bewildering fashion), this table being a companion, obviously made at the same time, to those of the Houses of Beor and Hador. I give it on p. 237

as it was first made. As in the table of the Beorians, the numerals against certain of the names refer to the leaders of the Haladin in sequence.

A particularly confusing element in the transformation of 'the People of Haleth' (who are confusing enough in any event) lies in the offspring of Halmir.

(1) In GA $212 (p. 70) it was told, in the annal for 468, that at the time of the Union of Maidros Haleth the Hunter 'gathered his folk in Brethil, and they whetted their axes; but he died of age ere the war came, and Hundor his son ruled his people' (in The Silmarillion, Chapter 20, p. 189, I retained this, substituting Halmir for Haleth the Hunter and Haldir for Hundor).

(2) I have noticed (p. 235, footnote) that in 'Hador table I' Halmir's son was still Hundor; and that this was changed to Hundar (found also in one of the constituent texts of the Narn as the name of the son) before reaching the final form Haldir.