Genealogies
These belong essentially with the earliest Annals ofBeleriand, but though I knew of their existence (since they are referred to the List of Names) I presumed them lost, and only recently discovered this small manuscript, after the work on Vol. IV was completed. It consists of genealogical tables of the Elvish princes, of the three houses of the Fathers of Men, and of the houses of me Eastern Men. There is ho need to reproduce these tables, but only to mention certain details that are not found elsewhere. In the first of them are some additional'persons: Elwe, Lord of the Teleri (who is called 'Lord of Ships'), has a son Elulindo; Fingon has a son Findobar (this name, simply as a name, occurs in the Etymologies under the stems ðíø (written Findobar andMBAR); Orodreth, in addition to his son Halmir, has a younger son Orodlin. The genealogies of Men have dates of birth and death. These were a good deal emended* changing them by a year or two, but in the result are almost exactly as in the earlier version of AB 1. The following arc however not given in the Annals in any version (if they had been they would of course have been extended in two steps, first by a hundred years and men by two hundred years). Elboron son of Dior born 192; Elbereth his brother born 195 (they were thus fourteen and eleven years old at their deaths, AB 2 annal 306); Hurin died in '7200' (in annal 200 in AB 1, repeated in AB 2, 'of his fate ho certain tidings are known'); Ulfand the Swart bom 100, died 170; Uldor the Accursed born 125, Ulfast born 128, Ulwar bom 130; In addition to the genealogical tables there is also a table of the divisions of the Qendi which is almost the same as that given with the Lhammas on p. 216, and together with this table is a list of the many names by which the Lindar, Noldor, and Teleri were known. This list is a first form of that in QS §29 (note to the text), and all the names found here are found also in the longer list in QS; but there are here also many Elvish names which (apart from Soloneldi) are not found in QS: The Lindar are named also Tarqendi 'High-elves', Vanimor 'the Beautiful' [> irimor 'the Fair Ones'], and Ninqendi 'White-elves'; The Noldor are named also Nurqendi 'Deep-elves', Ainimor [written above: Istimor] 'the Wise', and Kuluqendi 'Golden-elves'; The Teleri are named also Fabnarindi 'Foam-riders', Soloneldi' 'Musicians of the shore', and Veaneldar 'Sea-elves'. The name Vanimor is used in AV 2 of the lesser spirits of; Valarin race, among whom were 'later numbered' also th Valarindi, the Children of the Valar (pp. 122,134); the latter m the Vanimor in the Etymologies, stem ban, but under the negativ stems ugu, èìè the name is translated 'fair folk = (men and elves'. Some other of these names also appear in the Etymologiei Tarqendi (òà), Nurqendi (nu), Istimor (is), Falmarindi (ÐÍÀÜ; Soloneldi (sol). With Irimor cf. Irima ye Ntimenor in The Lot Road (p. 79), and see stem id.
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