* As the records of Gondor relate this was Argeleb II, the twentieth of the Northern line, which came to an end with Arvedui three hundred years later.

 

* Thus, the years of the Third Age in the reckoning of the Elves and the Dúnedain may be found by adding 1600 to the dates of Shire-reckoning.

 

* See Appendix B: annals 1451, 1462, 1482; and note at end of Appendix C.

 

* Represented in much reduced form in Appendix B as far as the end of the Third Age.

 

* See note 2, III, p. 1458

 

* Elves (and Hobbits) always refer to the Sun as She.

 

* The Hobbits’ name for the Plough or Great Bear.

 

* The Brandywine River.

 

* See note in Appendix F: Of the Elves.