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Fingolfin as the son of Finwë (Finn) and father of Turgon emerges first in the Lay of the Fall of Gondolin (III. 146–7), and is present in the second version of the Lay of the Children of Húrin (only by emendation in the first) (III. 137). That Fëanor was Fingolfin’s brother is deducible from the alliterative Flight of the Noldoli (ibid.), but from S, as originally written in this section, it is seen that Fëanor was at first the second, not the elder son. Here in S Finwë’s third son Finrod first emerges: the mention of him, and his sons, in a note to the Lay of the Children of Húrin (III. 80) is certainly later, as is his first appearance in the Lay of Leithian (III. 191, 195).

The seven sons of Fëanor with the same name-forms as here in S have appeared in the Lay of the Children of Húrin (III. 65, 86); the naming of Damrod and Díriel together in S suggests that they were already twin brothers.

Of the sons of Fingolfin Turgon of course goes back to the Lost Tales, where he was the son, not the grandson, of Finwë; the other son Finweg appears in the Lay of the Children of Húrin, where the emendation to Fingon (see III. 5, 80) is later than S – and the Quenta, where he was still Finweg in the text as first written.

The sons of Finrod first emerge here, and as the inserted passage in S was first written Orodreth was apparently the eldest son; Angrod was Anrod; and Felagund was Felagoth. Felagoth occurs as an intervening stage between Celegorm and Felagund in the A-text of the Lay of Leithian (III. 169, 195).

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In this section again S moves at a step close to the essential structure of the narrative in The Silmarillion, though there are important features not yet present. I have discussed previously (I. 156–8) the radical differences between the tale of The Theft of Melko and the story in The Silmarillion, and it will be seen that it was with S that almost all these differences entered: there is thus no need to repeat the comparison again here. But various more minor matters may be noticed.