in the manuscript it is said ( p. 9 ) that all the elves of the great lands ( those who remained in palisor , those who were lost on the march , and the noldoli returned from valinor ) fell beneath the power of melko , though many escaped and wandered in the wild ; and as the manuscript text was first written ( see p. x x and note 3 ) beren was 'son of a thrall of melko 's ... that laboured in the darker places in the north of hisilome ' .