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Re: Comments -- Scattered notes on Tuor and Idril's fate.

This is probably all to be rejected, at least for including any of it in the account of Tuor's departure.

Tuor for a time returned via Ilbranteloth (= Cirith Ninniach) to his old haunts by Asgon (= Lake Mithrim) per TE*N(vi):<blockquote>Quote:<hr> 'Tuor has sailed back to Falasquil and so back up Ilbranteloth to Asgon where he sits playing on his lonely harp on the islanded rock.'*** This is marked with a query and an 'X' implying rejection of the idea.<hr></blockquote>Idril departs after Tuor in early versions. A suggested fate for her in TE*C:<blockquote>Quote:<hr> Littleheart's gong awakens the Sleeper in the Tower of Pearl.^6

6**Struck out here: 'The sleeper is Idril but he does not know.'<hr></blockquote>Eärendil in Mandos per TE*C:<blockquote>Quote:<hr> Tuor is gone to Valinor and nought is known of Idril or of Elwing.<hr></blockquote>Tuor and Idril seemingly identified with the planet Mercury (similar to last mention of Elwing in QS77) per TE*C:<blockquote>Quote:<hr> Tuor and Idril some say sail now in Swanwing and may be seen going swift down the wind at dawn and dusk.<hr></blockquote>Tuor dwells with Ulmo in TE*N(xviii):<blockquote>Quote:<hr> When Eärendel comes to Mandos he finds that Tuor is ' not in Valinor, or Erumáni, and neither Elves nor Ainu know where he is. (He is with Ulmo.)'<hr></blockquote>

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