CONTENTS. Preface page1 I THE LAY OF THE CHILDREN Prologue (Hurin and Morgoth) I Turin's Fostering II Beleg III Failivrin Second Version of the Lay: I (Hurin and Morgoth) II Turin's Fostering OF HURIN II POEMS EARLY ABANDONED. The Flight of the Noldoli Fragment of an alliterative Lay of Earendel The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin 3. 6. 8. 29. 56. 95. 104. 13I. 14I. 144. III THE LAY OF LEITHIAN Canto I (Of Thingol) II (Gorlim's betrayal and Beren's revenge) III (Beren's meeting with Luthien) IV (Beren before Thingol) V (Luthien's captivity in Doriath) VI (Beren in Nargothrond) VII (Beren and Felagund before Thu) VIII (Luthien in Nargothrond) IX (The defeat of Thu) X (The attack by Celegorm and Curufin) XI (The disguising of Beren and Luthien and the journey to Angband) XII (Fingolfin and Morgoth; the meeting with Carcharoth) XIII (Beren and Luthien in Angband) XIV (Escape from Angband) Unwritten Cantos Appendix: Commentary by C. S. Lewis 150. 154. 161. 17I. 183. 198. 210. 224 235. 248. 259. 275. 284. 294. 306. 308. 315. IV THE LAY OF LEITHIAN RECOMMENCED page 330. Note on the original submission on the Lay of Leithian and The Silmarillion in 1937 Glossary of Obsolete, Archaic, and Rare Words and Meanings Index 364. 368. 373.