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3 unusual facts about The Book of Lost Tales


The Book of Lost Tales

#"The Flight of the Noldoli" — "Noldoli" are the Elves later called Noldor

The original usage of "Teleri" would eventually change until the name became "Vanyar".

Secondly, the interaction between the different elf-races is profoundly different from the Silmarillion: The exiled Noldoli (or "Gnomes", the Noldor of the later histories) suffer decisive defeat much earlier and become slaves of the enemy they had sought to punish.



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