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Shade of Carn Dûm
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Re: Literary devices
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Quote:<hr> I would have left some of the folkier jests of Sam out [if I recall correctly JRRT did] but the splicing of the main tale w/ the details of rose staying up on her b'day [I think that was in a secondary draft] and seeing the letter was great.<hr></blockquote>
I will address this below if I may.
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Quote:<hr> Epilouge is admittedly easier than Fall of Gondolin will be, and not just because of length , but because of stylistic discrepancies that exist even when factual oners do not.<hr></blockquote>
Even so; however
Epilogue itself was a stylistic change since it is supposedly wriiten by Sam, not Frodo or Bilbo.
AS such; I elected to retain what you called 'folkier jests' as it reflected more accurately upon Sam's values of family and down to earth sense. Much more of it could have been retained from all the various drafts, but the underlying tone and progression of story was the important part. Not every detail needed the repetition, which is what the result would have been if it was simply an attempt to combine all available text.
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Quote:<hr> I will try and discern the sources -but any commentary you provide would be welcome<hr></blockquote>
Doing so now. Really it was just an example of what you propose, but done with discretion, not just throwing in a text fragment simply because it had once been written. It was an attempt to show the main thrust of the idea and tone without adding new text [read as: fan-fiction].
And again the question comes back to; since it is such a compilation, was it (or would it) be forced or contrived?
This applies to other intended texts also.
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Quote:<hr> Write a new version? Isn't that exactly the "fan fiction" type of thing you said you wish to avoid?<hr></blockquote>
AFAIK; the indication here is to combine the texts in an intelligent manner without 'writing' connecting text or other forms of bridging the versions. That is undoubtedly 'fan-fiction'. I think the proposal is for a re-editing, not re-writing, if I understand everyting about the project direction correctly.
In some respects and cases; it would simply amount to re-inserting text that Christopher deleted (on his own initiative!) to accomplish the same sense of direction and resolution this seems to be taking. However again; is it to be a compilation of every written sentence or a compilation done with judicious care?
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