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Old 02-24-2013, 09:57 PM   #26
Aiwendil
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FG-TG-12: That looks fine, but unless you object I think it would be better to put that in a footnote, so as not to disrupt the narrative at all. That would also allow us to keep a little bit more:

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In these days came to pass the fulfilment of the time of the desire of the Valar and the hope of the Eldalië, for in great love Idril bore to Tuor a son FG-TG-11.5 and he was called Eärendil, <Shibboleth 'sea-lover'>. FG-TG-12 {Now thereto there are many interpretations both among Elves and Men, but belike it was a name wrought of some secret tongue among the Gondothlim and that has perished with them from the dwellings of the Earth.}<Shibboleth He had this name as father-name, and as mother-name he was called Ardamírë,> <Shibboleth 'Jewel of the World'> [Footnote: <Shibboleth His names were{, however,} given in Quenya; for Turgon after his foundation of the secret city of Gondolin had re-established Quenya as the daily speech of his household.> <Shibboleth These names were not given Sindarin forms in legend [(]{F}forms affected by Sindarin in manuscripts, such as Aerendil, Aerennel, etc. were casual and accidental[)], though Sindarin writers sometimes explained that they meant mír n'{Arðon}[Ardhon] and Seron Aearon.>]
I don't think we have a standard notation for footnotes in our editing, but I trust the meaning of the above is clear. Note that I've put the bit that was actually a footnote in the Shibboleth in parentheses, rather than having a footnote within a footnote.
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