Amarie - thanks for the Bombadil quote - it certainly confirms what I was too lazy to look up [ and the challenge was to you personally, so I rationalized, why not wait... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] ]
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Could it be then that he, deliberately, eliminated these parts of the later Silmarillion, just to leave some misteries to us?
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I suggested the sub/semi-concious idea, because except for the Ainulindale, the Silmarillion [as found in vol's 3-5 and 10 and 11] and the LotR was composed without visual reference to the Book of Lost tales [according to CJRT].
So I think it is quite plausible that many subtleties that were lost in compression and never regained during the POst LotR decompression of the Silm material still lingered on. The whole 'Trres of Kortirion ' being a sort-of example. [see the
HoM-E/UT Society thread.]
It never appears in a Silm or legendarium manuscript, but it's radical and far reaching implications are still kicking around in his brain, and certainly influencing the way he views the Elves and their history, and view of themselves.
[ July 22, 2003: Message edited by: lindil ]