This page, being the earliest version of an actual 'Tale of Years', I will call T 1.

Of the Tale of Years in the latter ages.

The Tale of Years in the Latter Ages.

The next stage in the development was an attempt to reduce the Tale of Years much more drastically.

Note on changes made to the manuscript T 4 of the Tale of Years.

See further The Tale of Years, pp.

The word 'cannot' may well have been written against the entry for 503 in The Tale of Years at the same time as this.

In The Tale of Years he left on 1 March, thus six days before.

This is perhaps to be related to the statement in The Tale of Years (pp.

Frodo's third illness, in the following year, also fell on March 13, according to The Tale of Years.