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Forum: The Books
11-09-2016, 03:59 PM
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William Cloud Hicklin
And it was considerations along those lines that...
And it was considerations along those lines that led my to come up with the 10 classes of canonicity I posted above, ranging from Class I (Aragorn from youth bore the shards of Narsil, reforged as... |
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Forum: The Books
11-08-2016, 11:24 AM
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William Cloud Hicklin
Of course, the publication trench-line meas that...
Of course, the publication trench-line meas that there is virtually no canonical "fact" regarding the Elder Days at all, beyond the fragments in the LR Appendices. individuals named Hurin and Turin... |
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Forum: The Books
11-07-2016, 08:29 PM
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William Cloud Hicklin
Okay- how would you class the "canonicity" of...
Okay- how would you class the "canonicity" of this very interesting excerpt from a 1965 letter.... not by Tolkien, but by his secretary apparently in consultation with him: [Just... |
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Forum: The Books
11-05-2016, 08:50 AM
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William Cloud Hicklin
Yes, the original story was that Gondolin wasn't...
Yes, the original story was that Gondolin wasn't founded until after the Nirnaeth by Turgon's regiment fleeing the battle,* all of them of course Gnomes. The new story arose pretty 'late'- IIRC not... |
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Forum: The Books
11-03-2016, 12:20 PM
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William Cloud Hicklin
Of course, what may have been in Tolkien's mind...
Of course, what may have been in Tolkien's mind as much as anything was simply that published matter couldn't be changed, at least not easily (neither the Hobbit revisions nor the LR second edition... |
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Forum: The Books
11-01-2016, 06:17 PM
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Replies: 44
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Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
Ah- but in that case we would be talking about...
Ah- but in that case we would be talking about author publication of the very work in question. Canonicity debates, with very few exceptions, always swirl around the First Age material precisely... |
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Forum: The Books
11-01-2016, 11:14 AM
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Replies: 44
Views: 24,505
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William Cloud Hicklin
Well, of course not.
The thing is, we know...
Well, of course not. The thing is, we know that T was willing on occasion to contradict published material, and then regularize the change in print: vide Finrod > Finarfin and Inglor > Finrod. ... |
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Forum: The Books
11-01-2016, 08:02 AM
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Replies: 44
Views: 24,505
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
The whole thing becomes a mess largely because...
The whole thing becomes a mess largely because Tolkien himself futzed around for nearly 20 years after the LR was published and never got the Silmarillion finished. Therefore it's hard to tell what... |
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Forum: The Books
11-01-2016, 07:29 AM
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Replies: 44
Views: 24,505
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
From 2002? 14 years ago?
"The ways of...
From 2002? 14 years ago? "The ways of Sauron and the necromancers are of Melkor." |
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