The Lost Road

"I wish life was not so short," he thought, "Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about."

I am at a loss to say what is referred to in these lines.

“What callest thou Death? He did not return. He forsook all whom he loved, ere he stepped on that shore.(8) He saved his kindred by losing them.”

Hador, and Húrin, and Túrin, and Beren

and the Noldor were the most numerous; and the Teleri who dwelt most easterly were scattered in the woods, for even from their awakening they were wanderers and lovers of freedom.

He has great love for Fionwë son of Manwë. His wife is Nessa, sister of Oromë,....

but his great love for Fionwë is not mentioned there. - The original reading in the manuscript was He had great love for Fionwë;

It is now told that Ingwë was not only the high-king of the Eldalië, but was ‘the oldest of all Elves, for he first awoke.

Inglor and Orodreth were close in love, and they were friends of the sons of Fingolfin

For this the Noldor should taste death more often and more bitterly than their kindred, by weapon and by torment and by grief;

But Fëanor said: ‘He saith not that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens'; and that proved true also.

being at variance with them, and at strife with the world.

he cursed the name of Morgoth thrice, and he laid it on his sons never to treat or parley with their foe.

And that region was named of old in the language of Doriath Beleriand, but after the coming of the Noldor it was called also in the tongue of Valinor Ingolondë, the fair and sorrowful, the Kingdom of the Gnomes.

and the Gnomes of the North, at first in merriment, called him on this account Felagund, or Lord of Caverns, and that name he bore thereafter until his end.

In QS chapter 10 the new chronology was already in being as the manuscript was written;

and mighty though the Kings of the Noldor were in those days, and filled with the fire and glory of Valinor, the name of Thingol was held in awe among them.

Khazaddûm is the first occurrence of the celebrated name. It is interesting to observe that it existed - but as the Dwarvish name of Nogrod

For Húrin son of Gumlin was fostered for a while in boyhood by Haleth, according to the custom of Men and Elves in that time.

According to the revised dating, Hador was born in 390, and he died with Gundor in 456.

The statement that Morgoth suborned Sauron ‘in Valinor from among the people of the Gods' is notable. The implication must be that at this period my father conceived Sauron to have followed Morgoth when he fled to Middle-earth accompanied by Ungoliantë.

The attack on Hithlum took place in the year 462, the year in which Beren fled from Dorthonion.

Brodda was mighty among the incoming Men, and wealthy (such as wealth was reckoned in that time of ruin); for he had taken for his own many of the lands and cattle of Húrin.

And though she was willing that her son might be fostered in the halls of another after the manner of that time, if boys were left fatherless, she would not humble her pride to be an alms guest even of the King of Doriath.

Now when he was seventeen years of age and upon the threshold of manhood he was strong of arm and skilled with all weapons, and in the weaving of words in song or tale he had a great craft, whether in the tongue of the Noldor or of Doriath;