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Originally Posted by Lalwendė
All you need to do is look through some random threads and you'll find oodles of contradictory quotes folk have flung at each other so save yer brains
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I would be in debt if you could mention one such thread where letters contradict each other
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However, how do we know what was a 'pen slip' and what was correct?
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IIRC, Tolkien mentioned in a letter that it was the valar who destroyed Numenor; that appears only in one of the initial versios of the story; the rest of them have Eru do it. I would call that a pen slip - mixing versions, timelines, etc. As I mentioned, this happens even with the final version, where we know Tolkien pondered each and every word.