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**lindil** · 03-23-2003, 08:07 PM

If I called it Fan-Fiction, I should have qualified it and called it the only 'canonical' fan-fiction we have [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img].

It is the only part of the Silmarillion where CJRT had to step in and not just make a few editorial glosses and smooth transistions, update names and things like that.

With the Ruin of Doriath he took some projected plot outlines and even details from some of his fathers Letters, and then added the section about the Dwearves already being within the Girdle and working for THingol when the Nauglamir arrived.

I think btw he did a masterful job and was quite right to step in a bridge the gap, although he has reproached himself for it since.

What he should really reproach himself for imo is not locking himself in his room with his father before he died and hashing all of this out ! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

But he has certainly done his best to make up for any lack in the Silmarillion by the monumental labor that is HoM-E and UT.

03-23-2003, 08:07 PM	#3
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	If I called it Fan-Fiction, I should have qualified it and called it the only 'canonical' fan-fiction we have [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]. It is the only part of the Silmarillion where CJRT had to step in and not just make a few editorial glosses and smooth transistions, update names and things like that. With the Ruin of Doriath he took some projected plot outlines and even details from some of his fathers Letters, and then added the section about the Dwearves already being within the Girdle and working for THingol when the Nauglamir arrived. I think btw he did a masterful job and was quite right to step in a bridge the gap, although he has reproached himself for it since. What he should really reproach himself for imo is not locking himself in his room with his father before he died and hashing all of this out ! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] But he has certainly done his best to make up for any lack in the Silmarillion by the monumental labor that is HoM-E and UT. __________________ The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.