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Originally Posted by Lindale
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And think of it, it would be tiresome for us too, if we read everything Tolkien wrote and could have written.
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I suspect Tolkien would have agreed with you. What he wanted was to complete a final version of The Sil which he was happy with, not simply produce endless variants of the stories. Trouble was he couldn't bring the work to a final form. What CT has given us (rightly or wrongly), is all his father's attempts, over a long lifetime, to achieve that goal.
Personally I think much of HoM-e is redundant (even though a great deal of Tolkien's linguistic writings were not included & have subsequently been published in Vinyar Tengwar). Much of what's included could have been summarised without any loss. Still, we must be grateful to CT for the work he put in, & great deal of the material in HoM-e is of real value. Some is great literature.