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I'm sure this happens to other people all the time, and not just me. You know when you read something in a book (say, in March of 2002), and can then never find it again?

I am searching through the HoME volumes in a thus-far unsuccessful attempt to locate I particular footnote I remember reading once. It concerned Indis, previously recorded as Ingwë's sister, being moved down one generation and relabelled as the daughter of his sister. The specific quote I am looking for described the reason for doing this: being that Tolkien decided all the women of Ingwë and Finwë's generation would likely already be married, and so Finwë's second wife would have to be younger, as the daughter of Ingwë's sister rather than simply Ingwë's sister.

Indis-sister-of-Ingwë is the version that appears in the Statute of Finwë and Miriel in MR, but Indis-niece-of-Ingwë shows up in The Shibboleth of Fëanor (PM-e). I could not find the note I was looking for in either place.

Anyone have any ideas where such a note may be hiding?