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I am rereading the Silmarillion at the moment and it strilkes me that the role of CT is a little like the Valar entering Ea and finding it all unshaped and trying to make it as it was in the Music...... but maybe I am being flippant.... I agree there is a distinction between the works published in Tolkiens lifetime and those after ... but that said I think I prefer the "openly" edited ones to the seamless Silmarillion. I like CT writing in his "own" voice as editor, the explanations, back history and alternative "histories" and the occasional flashes of rather dry humour..
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