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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Did the Valar abandon Middle Earth - Third Age?
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Quote:<hr> The appendices could be either elvish or Gondorian. The Sil. is a toss up.<hr></blockquote>
Appendices are a combo of Gondorian text (says so right at the beginning of Appendix A where the sorces are listed and marked in text as 'direct quotations' of Gondorian text, and commentary is by the 'Translator', not hobbits (they really don't intrude upon the appendices except in various 'direct quotes' from Herblore or such).
The SILMARILLION is supposed to be Bilbo's TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ELVISH, appended by text from Gondor concerning mannish tales. AKALLABETH, OF THE RINGS OF POWER THIRD AGE AND THE THIRD AGE are clearly shown to be appendixed to SIL. The sections on Gondolin, Turin, Luthien, and other relevant Mannish tales were supposed to also be appendiced, but were not.
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