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Re: Jallanite's sugestions - His response
As to exact assignment of chapters, I think that awaits a look at the finished materials to see how things flow. For now this is the "Fall of Gondolin", an independent work, and includes as an epilogue narrative up to the departure of Tuor and Idril.
I was not planning to suggest any stylistic changes, merely indicating that changing text for stylistic reasons would be facing different issues altogether than what I was doing: making a list of possible emendations and mergings of source texts to produce a base document. If I was merging two texts of approximately equal size in very different styles I would probably have had to face that problem.
The only thing I might have found bothersome stylistically in combining texts was the issue of capitalization: when to use "north" and when to use "North", when to use "sea" and when to use "Sea" for example. I ignored the issue and simply followed the document I was using as a source. Seeing if general rules can be ascertained from JRRT's useage might be worth trying.
</p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000212>jallanit e</A> at: 7/8/01 8:34:10 pm
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