Ælfwine and Dírhaval

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The War of the Jewels chapters

Part One: The Grey Annals Part Two: The Later Quenta Silmarillion Of Men Of the Siege of Angband Of Beleriand and its Realms Of Turgon and the Building of Gondolin Concerning the Dwarves Of the Coming of Men into the West Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin The Last Chapters Part Three: The Wanderings of Húrin and Other Writings The Wanderings of Húrin Ælfwine and Dírhaval Maeglin Of the Ents and the Eagles The Tale of Years Part Four: Quendi and Eldar Appendix: The legend of the Awaking of the Quendi

Ælfwine and Dírhaval is chapter two of Part Three of The War of the Jewels, the eleventh book in The History of Middle-earth. It contains two introductory notes to the Narn i Chîn Húrin that are labeled as "A" and "B".

Synopsis

Text A is entitled Túrin Turumsth and it was written in the Minlamed thent/estent verse mode.

Commentary

In his introduction to the the text "A", Christopher Tolkien notes that it was "written with almost no hesitations or alterations". In his introduction to text "B", he makes note of it being "very much briefer".