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Quote:Originally Posted by William Cloud Hickli
Because it's from The Children of Hurin, where CRT has avoided like the plague any deviation from the source-texts, unlike his younger self.
The quote first appears in the Silmarillion, in Of Turin Turambar. I am not aware it appears in Tolkien's own writings.
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Much of Ch. 21 was perforce taken from the Narn papers, which are the source-material for The Children of Hurin. But Christopher today thinks that the Christopher of the 1970s took far too many liberties with his father's manuscripts, and has said many times, in print and out, that the Children of Hurin is with a few minor exceptions his father's words verbatim- much more so than was the case with the Narn in Unfinished Tales. I would accord the Children of Hurin canonical status above Unfinished Tales and just below HoME- and of course far, far above Chapter 22 of the 1977 text, which Christopher largely made up from whole cloth.