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The lines concerning Orgof dead are noteworthy:

his hour had come

that his soul should seek the sad pathway

to the deep valley of the Dead Awaiting,

there a thousand years thrice to ponder

in the gloom of Gurthrond his grim jesting,

ere he fare to Faërie to feast again.

(544–9)

With this compare the tale of The Coming of the Valar and the Building of Valinor (I. 76):

There [in the hall of Vê] Mandos spake their doom, and there they waited in the darkness, dreaming of their past deeds, until such time as he appointed when they might again be born into their children, and go forth to laugh and sing again.

The name Gurthrond (< Guthrond) occurs nowhere else; the first element is doubtless gurth ‘death’, as in the name of Túrin’s sword Gurtholfin (II. 342).

There remain a few particular points concerning names. At line 366 Hithlum is explained as the name of Dorlómin among Men:

of dark Dorlómin with its dreary pines

that Hithlum unhappy is hight by Men.

This is curious. In the Lost Tales the name of the land among Men was Aryador; so in the Tale of Turambar (II. 70):

In those days my folk dwelt in a vale of Hisilómë and that land did Men name Aryador in the tongues they then used.

In the 1930 ‘Silmarillion’ it is specifically stated that Hithlum and Dorlómin were Gnomish names for Hisilómë, and there seems every reason to suppose that this was always the case. The answer to the puzzle may however lie in the same passage of the Tale of Turambar, where it is said that

often was the story of Turambar and the Foalókë in their [i.e. Men’s] mouths – but rather after the fashion of the Gnomes did they say Turumart and the Fuithlug.

Perhaps then the meaning of line 366 is that Men called Hisilómë Hithlum because they used the Gnomish name, not that it was the name in their own tongue.

In the following lines (367–8)

the Shadowy Mountains

fenced them from Faërie and the folk of the wood.

This is the first occurrence of the name Shadowy Mountains, and it is used as it was afterwards (Ered Wethrin); in the Lost Tales the mountains forming the southern fence of Hithlum are called the Iron Mountains or the Bitter Hills (see II. 61).