Editing Elendil (section)

=== Germanic echoes ===
{{further|Tolkien's frame stories|J. R. R. Tolkien's explorations of time travel}}

Tolkien wrote in a 1964 letter that the story of Elendil began when [[C. S. Lewis]] and he agreed to write a space travel and a time travel story, respectively. Tolkien's tale was to be called ''Númenor, the Land in the West'', with repeated father–son pairs [[Númenor#Philology|whose names meant "Bliss-friend" and "Elf-friend"]] each time. It was not completed, but survives as two unfinished time-travel novels, ''[[The Lost Road]]'' and ''[[The Notion Club Papers]]''. The Elf-friends were to be Elwin in present time; Ælfwine ([[Old English]]) around 918 AD; Alboin from "[[Lombards|Lombardic]] legend"; and eventually Elendil of Númenor. Tolkien states that he lost interest in the others, and focussed on Elendil, whose story he incorporated into his "main mythology".<ref name="Letter 257" group=T>{{harvnb|Carpenter|2023|loc=Letter #257 to Christopher Bretherton, 16 July 1964 }}</ref>{{sfn|Shippey|2005|pp=336-337}} One of Tolkien's correspondents, the scholar of English, Rhona Beare, writes in ''[[Mythlore]]'' that Elendil is a "remote ancestor" of Alboin; when Alboin travels back in time he finds Númenor simultaneously familiar and strange, because he can see it both with Elendil's eyes and with his own.<ref name="Beare 1996">{{cite journal |last=Beare |first=Rhona |title=Time Travel |journal=[[Mythlore]] |date=1996 |volume=21 |issue=3 (81, Summer 1996) |pages=33–35 |jstor=26812581}}</ref>

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|+ Names of the [[Tolkien's frame stories|frame story]] characters{{sfn|Shippey|2005|pp=336-337}}
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! Germanic || [[Old English]] !! Meaning !! Modern name !! [[Quenya]] (in [[Númenor]])
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| '''''[[Alboin]]''''' || '''''[[Ælfwine]]''''' || Elf-friend || '''Alwin''', Elwin, Aldwin || '''Elendil'''
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| ''[[Audoin]]'' || ''[[Eadwine]]'' || Bliss-friend || Edwin || Herendil
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| — || ''Oswine'' || God-friend|| Oswin, cf. Oswald || Valandil ("[[Valar]]-friend") 
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