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Old 03-06-2010, 06:01 PM   #10
Galin
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
 
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In the Silmarillion (Of Maeglin): '... for she [Idril] was golden as the Vanyar, her mother's kindred, and...'

This can be found in the 1951 text, noted as 'A' in III Maeglin in The War of the Jewels. 'A' also noted that: 'Alaire, was of the Vanyar and would not forsake Valinor', which seems to agree with the unfinished early 1950s Fall of Gondolin (Unfinished Tales), that Alaire remained in Aman.

The passage describing Idril being golden (and so on) appears to have been taken up into the late typescript (see III Maeglin again, WJ) and received no change.
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