[Aiwendil]

Another point I just noticed:

RD-EX-22<TN Now<editorial brigde when Húrin and his Band had departed from Menegroth> came {Gwenniel}[Melian] to {Tinwelint}[Thingol] and said: ‘Touch not this gold, for my heart tells me it is trebly cursed. Cursed indeed by the dragon's breath, and cursed by RD-EX-23 {thy}[Orodreth's] lieges' blood that moistens it, and the death of those' they slew; but some more bitter and more binding ill methinks hangs over it that I may not see.’

And RD-EX-24:

Therefore he let wash it clean of its stains of blood in clear waters, and display it before him.

In TN there has just been a battle in Thingol's halls, and the gold is literally moistened with blood. Here it looks like we are changing the references to blood so that they refer to the blood spilt at the sack of Nargothrond. But surely the blood of Orodreth and his people is not still literally upon the gold, after years of lying in the hoard of Glaurung and after being carried far by Hurin and his band. I think we must remove both elements: Melian's words concerning the blood and Thingol's washing of the gold. How then shall we report Melian's words? One option is to try to find the closest substitute possible for the second curse in Melian's list, e.g.:

RD-EX-22<TN Now<editorial brigde when Húrin and his Band had departed from Menegroth> came {Gwenniel}[Melian] to {Tinwelint}[Thingol] and said: ‘Touch not this gold, for my heart tells me it is trebly cursed. Cursed indeed by the dragon's breath, and cursed by RD-EX-23 {thy lieges' blood that moistens it, and the death of those they slew} [the spell of Morgoth that drove Hurin hither]; but some more bitter and more binding ill methinks hangs over it that I may not see.’

But that's too big a fabrication and I can't think of anything better. Another option is:

[QUOTE]

RD-EX-22<TN Now<editorial brigde when Húrin and his Band had departed from Menegroth> came {Gwenniel}[Melian] to {Tinwelint}[Thingol] and said: ‘Touch not this gold, for my heart tells me it is {trebly} [doubly] cursed. Cursed indeed by the dragon's breath, and cursed by RD-EX-23 {thy lieges' blood that moistens it, and the death of those they slew}; but some more bitter and more binding ill methinks hangs over it that I may not see.’

In RD-EX-24 I think we can simply use:

Therefore he let {wash it clean of its stains of blood in clear waters, and} display it before him.

Another point that I had noticed but forgot to mention: in §24b we say that Thingol summoned "the Dwarves of Nogrod and Belegost". This is the story in Q30, replacing that in TN that only the Dwarves of Nogrod were involved. But it is said in "Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn" that only the Dwarves of Nogrod were involved - so we should delete Belegost here.