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The flight begins.6 The Teleri will not join. The Gnomes cannot escape without boats, and do not dare to cross the Grinding Ice. They attempt to seize the swan-ships in Swanhaven, and a fight ensues (the first between the races of the Earth) in which many Teleri are slain, and their ships carried off. A curse is pronounced upon the Gnomes, that they shall after suffer often from treachery and the fear of treachery among their own kindred in punishment for the blood spilled at Swanhaven.7 They sail North along the coast of Valinor. Mandos sends an emissary, who speaking from a high cliff hails them as they sail by, and warns them to return, and when they will not speaks the ‘Prophecy of Mandos’ concerning the fate of after days.8
The Gnomes come to the narrowing of the seas, and prepare to sail. While they are encamped upon the shore Fëanor and his sons and people sail off taking with them all the boats, and leave Fingolfin on the far shore treacherously, thus beginning the Curse of Swanhaven. They burn the boats as soon as they land in the East of the world, and Fingolfin’s people see the light in the sky. The same light also tells the Orcs of the landing.
Fingolfin’s people wander miserably. Some under Fingolfin return to Valinor9 to seek the Gods’ pardon. Finweg leads the main host North, and over the Grinding Ice. Many are lost.
1 As originally written, this sentence began Finn and Fëanor summon &c. This was a mere slip, since Finn’s death has already been mentioned in the text as first written (§4), and my father later struck out Finn and. He left the plural verb summon and their banishment; this I have changed to his banishment, since it is not said of the Gnomes who accompanied Fëanor that they left Tûn under banishment (though this is not said of Finn either). The Quenta has his banishment in this passage (p. 94).
2 Added here hastily in pencil:
He claims the lordship as eldest son now Finn is dead, in spite of the Gods’ decree.
[Except for the later pencilled alteration given in note 5, all the changes noted below, mostly concerned to introduce the part of Finrod in the events, were made at the same time, in red ink. Finrod, the third son of Finn/Finwë, appears in the interpolated passage given in §3 note 2.]