Question for the Sindarin experts: is Meril still valid? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

William Cloud Hicklin · 09-23-2015, 06:23 AM

Back OT: I can't run it down, but somewhere there is a Tolkien statement, relatively late, of a tradition ascribing authorship of the Akallabeth to Elendil; this would represent a conscious change to the conception reflected in the text of Akallabeth itself, which was on its own terms expressly an Aelfwine-Pengolodh document.

09-23-2015, 06:23 AM	#28
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	Back OT: I can't run it down, but somewhere there is a Tolkien statement, relatively late, of a tradition ascribing authorship of the Akallabeth to Elendil; this would represent a conscious change to the conception reflected in the text of Akallabeth itself, which was on its own terms expressly an Aelfwine-Pengolodh document. __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.

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