（外文电子版资料）APPENDIX.DOCVIP

APPENDIX. NAMES IN THE LOST TALES -- PART I. There exist two small books, contemporary with the Lost Tales, which contain the first lexicons of the Elvish lan- guages; and both of them are very difficult documents. One is concerned with the language called, in the book, Qenya, and I shall refer to this book as QL (Qenya Lexi- con). A good proportion of the entries in the first half of the alphabet were made at one time, when the work was first begun; these were very carefully written, though the pencil is now faint. Among these original entries is this group: Lemin five Lempe ten Leminkainen 23 The choice of 23 suggests that this was my fathers age at the time, and that the book was begun therefore in 1915. This is supported by some of the statements made in the first layer of entries about certain figures of the mythology, statements that are at odds with everything that is said elsewhere, and which give glimpses of a stage even earlier than the Lost Tales. The book naturally continued in use, and many entries (virtually all of those in the second part of the alphabet) are later than this first layer, though nothing more definite can be said than that all entries belong to the period of (or not long preceding) the Lost Tales. The words in QL are arranged according to roots, and a note at the beginning states: Roots are in capitals, and are not words in use at all, but serve as an elucidation of the words grouped together and a con- nection between them. There is a good deal of uncertainty, expressed by queries, in the formulation of the roots, and in the ascription of words to one root or another, as my father moved among different etymological ideas; and in some cases it seems clear that the word was there, so to speak, but its etymology remained to be certainly defined, and not vice versa. The roots them- selves are often difficult to represent, since certain conso- nants carry diacritic marks that are not defined. The notes on names that follow inevitably give