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War of the Jewels, p. 201. Pencilled emendations to the old QS manuscript, so that above "Nogrod, the Dwarfmine" is written "Dwarrowdelf;" and then in the margin
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Ah, thanks. I'd thought you meant a LotR-related note.
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But if so then why give Moria the established name of Nogrod (Khazad-dum, translated Dwarfmine and Dwarrowdelf), and at least for a time identify the two? Whereas it gives Occam a better shave if Khazad-dum/Moria/Nogrod, for a moment at least, was located in Nogrod's traditional position.
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Well, it seems to me equally parsimonious to posit that the view expressed in the note on the QS manuscript had already been reached. We know that at some point the idea was Belegost in the Blue Mountains and Nogrod/Moria east in the Misty Mountains. Is it so implausible that this was the conception that underlay the third (and subsequent) phase(s) of LotR? There's apparently no hard evidence, but this seems to me just as likely as your alternative, that the Blue and the Misty Mountains were at that time one and the same.