New interview with Christopher Tolkien

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by dreeness

Smiley emoticons do not replace sentient content, nor do they mask an apparent lack of courtesy. As a new member of the forum, I am wondering why you have decided to take an altogether contrarian attitude here.

If it is your intention to alienate yourself from the rest of us, then congratulations, you are well on your way to pariah status.

Originally Posted by dreeness

("Unprecedented"? In all literary criticism, everywhere? That does seem unlikely.)

I am uninterested in what "seems unlikely" to you. We are not talking about your innate ability to divine an opinion. Your level of prescience is already in question.

If you have an actual example of such extraordinary documentation, research and editing of unpublished works of an author compiled by a single person, I'd like to hear it. Pepys? Boswell? I have quite an extensive library of literary criticism and research and I've seen nothing like it. If you have something valid to offer rather than snide and unsubstantiated contentions, then do so; if not, then there is no debate.

I would consider The Silmarillion, the 12 volumes of The History of Middle-earth, The Children of Hurin, and The Legend of Sigrid and Gudrun to be "unprecedented", but then again J.R.R. Tolkien himself was unprecedented in the depth and scope of his subcreation. And I am grateful to Christopher Tolkien for making this documentation available to the public.