Sixth part. Eдrendel reaches Kфr and finds it empty. Fares home in sorrow (and sights Tol Eressлa and the fleet of the Elves, but a great wind and darkness carries him away, and he misses his way and has a voyage eastward).
Arriving at length at Sirion finds it empty. Goes to the ruins of Gondolin. Hears of tidings. Sails to Tol Eressлa. Sails to the Isle of Seabirds.
Seventh part. His voyage to the firmament.
Written at the end of the text is: ‘Rem[ainder] of Scheme in Notebook C’. These references in Scheme B to ‘Notebook C’ are to the little pocket-book which goes back to 1916–17 but was used for notes and suggestions throughout the period of the Lost Tales (see I. 171). At the beginning of it there is an outline (here called ‘C’) headed ‘Eдrendel’s Tale, Tuor’s son’, which is in fair harmony with Scheme B:
Eдrendel dwells with Tuor and Irildл2 at Sirion’s mouth by the sea (on the Isles of Sirion). Elwing of the Gnomes of Artanor3 flees to them with the Nauglafring. Eдrendel and Elwing love one another as boy and girl.
Great love of Eдrendel and Tuor. Tuor ages, and Ulmo’s conches far out west over the sea call him louder and louder, till one evening he sets sail in his twilit boat with purple sails, Swanwing, Alqarбmл.4 Idril sees him too late. Her song on the beach of Sirion.
When he does not return grief of Eдrendel and Idril. Eдrendel (urged also by Idril who is immortal) desires to set sail and search even to Mandos. [Marginal addition:] Curse of Nauglafring rests on his voyages. Ossл his enemy.
Fiord of the Mermaid. Wreck. Ulmo appears at wreck and saves them, telling them he must go to Kфr and is saved for that.
Elwing’s grief when she learns Ulmo’s bidding. ‘For no man may tread the streets of Kфr or look upon the places of the Gods and dwell in the Outer Lands in peace again.’
Eдrendel departs all the same and is wrecked by the treachery of Ossл and saved only by the Oarni (who love him) with Voronwл and dragged to Falasquil.
Eдrendel makes his way back by land with Voronwл. Finds that Idril has vanished.5 His grief. Prays to Ulmo and hears the conches. Ulmo bids him build a new and wonderful ship of the wood of Tuor from Falasquil. Building of Wingilot.
There are four items headed ‘Additions’ on this page of the notebook:
Building of Eдrбmл (Eaglepinion).
Noldoli add their pleading to Ulmo’s bidding.
Eдrendel surveys the first dwelling of Tuor at Falasquil.
The voyage to Mandos and the Icy Seas.
The outline continues:
Voronwл and Eдrendel set sail in Wingilot. Driven south. Dark regions. Fire mountains. Tree-men. Pygmies. Sarqindi or cannibalogres.
Driven west. Ungweliantл. Magic Isles. Twilit Isle [sic]. Littleheart’s gong awakes the Sleeper in the Tower of Pearl.6
Kфr is found. Empty. Eдrendel reads tales and prophecies in the waters. Desolation of Kфr. Eдrendel’s shoes and self powdered with diamond dust so that they shine brightly.
Homeward adventures. Driven east—the deserts and red palaces where dwells the Sun.7
Arrives at Sirion, only to find it sacked and empty. Eдrendel distraught wanders with Voronwл and comes to the ruins of Gondolin. Men are encamped there miserably. Also Gnomes searching still for lost gems (or some Gnomes gone back to Gondolin).
Of the binding of Melko.8 The wars with Men and the departure to Tol Eressлa (the Eldar unable to endure the strife of the world). Eдrendel sails to Tol Eressлa and learns of the sinking of Elwing and the Nauglafring. Elwing became a seabird. His grief is very great. His garments and body shine like diamonds and his face is in silver flame for the grief and……….
He sets sail with Voronwл and dwells on the Isle of Seabirds in the northern waters (not far from Falasquil)—and there hopes that Elwing will return among the seabirds, but she is seeking him wailing along all the shores and especially among wreckage.
After three times seven years he sails again for halls of Mandos with Voronwл—he gets there because [?only] those who still……….and had suffered may do so—Tuor is gone to Valinor and nought is known of Idril or of Elwing.
Reaches bar at margin of the world and sets sail on oceans of the firmament in order to gaze over the Earth. The Moon mariner chases him for his brightness and he dives through the Door of Night. How he cannot now return to the world or he will die.
He will find Elwing at the Faring Forth.
Tuor and Idril some say sail now in Swanwing and may be seen going swift down the wind at dawn and dusk.
The Co-events to Eдrendel’s Tale
Raid upon Sirion by Melko’s Orcs and the captivity of Elwing.
Birds tell Elves of the Fall of Gondolin and the horrors of the fate of the Gnomes. Counsels of the Gods and uproar of the Elves. March of the Inwir and Teleri. The Solosimpi go forth also but fare along all the beaches of the world, for they are loth to fare far from the sound of the sea—and only consent to go with the Teleri under these conditions—for the Noldoli slew some of their kin at Kуpas.
This outline then goes on to the events after the coming of the Elves of Valinor into the Great Lands, which will be considered in the next chapter.
Though very much fuller, there seems to be little in C that is certainly contradictory to what is said in B, and there are elements in the latter that are absent from the former. In discussing these outlines I follow the divisions of the tale made in B.
Second part. A little more is told in C of Tuor’s departure from Sirion (in B there is no mention of Idril); and there appears the motive of Ossл’s hostility to Eдrendel and the curse of the Nauglafring as instrumental in his shipwrecks. The place of the first wreck is called the Fiord of the Mermaid. The word ‘them’ rather than ‘him’ in ‘Ulmo saves them, telling them he must go to Kфr’ is certain in the manuscript, which possibly suggests that Idril or Elwing (or both) were with Eдrendel.
Third part. In B Eдrendel’s second voyage, like the first, is explicitly an attempt to reach Mandos (seeking his father), whereas in C it seems that the second is undertaken rather in order to fulfil Ulmo’s bidding that he sail to Kфr (to Elwing’s grief). In C Voronwл is named as Eдrendel’s companion on the second voyage which ended at Falasquil; but the Isle of Seabirds is not mentioned at this point. In C Wingilot is built ‘of the wood of Tuor from Falasquil’ in The Fall of Gondolin Tuor’s wood was hewed for him by the Noldoli in the forests of Dor Lуmin and floated down the hidden river (p. 152).
Fourth part. Whereas B merely refers to Eдrendel’s ‘many wanderings, occupying several years’ in his quest for Valinor, C gives some glimpses of what they were to be, as Wingilot was driven to the south and then into the west. The encounter with Ungweliantл on the western voyage is curious; it is said in The Tale of the Sun and Moon that ‘Melko held the North and Ungweliant the South’ (see I.182, 200).
In C we meet again the Sleeper in the Tower of Pearl (said to be Idril, though this was struck out, note 6) awakened by Littleheart’s gong; cf. the account of Littleheart in The Cottage of Lost Play (I.15):
He sailed in Wingilot with Eдrendel in that last voyage wherein they sought for Kфr. It was the ringing of this Gong on the Shadowy Seas that awoke the Sleeper in the Tower of Pearl that stands far out to west in the Twilit Isles.
In The Coming of the Valar it is said that the Twilit Isles ‘float’ on the Shadowy Seas ‘and the Tower of Pearl rises pale upon their most western cape’ (I.68; cf. I.125). But there is no other mention in C of Littleheart, Voronwл’s son, as a companion of Eдrendel, though he was named earlier in the outline, in a rejected phrase, as present at the Mouths of Sirion (see note 5), and in the Tale of the Nauglafring (p. 228) Ailios says that none still living have seen the Nauglafring ‘save only Littleheart son of Bronweg’ (where ‘save only’ is an emendation from ‘not even’).