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Old 04-11-2007, 11:19 AM   #33
lindil
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lindil has just left Hobbiton.
"I do not read ANY of CT's middle Earth history because much of that material was rejected by Tolkien himself as it did not entirely harmonize with his inner vision."

Newsflash: CJRT edited the Silm. sometimes heavily, sometimes lightly. Some sections [thingols death are pure CJRT fan-fiction]. You want tolkien's 'purest' silmarillion? Better go buy HoME X & XI, as they are:
  • JRRT's last revised drafts of the Silm material
  • written after the LotR, his craft only got better w/ age
  • have much more material than the more 'remote' compressed Pre-LotR summaries CJRT favored in his SilM.
Ultimately every Silmarillion reader who wishes to dive deeper than CJRT's Silmlite has to go to the virtually unedited [in terms of the texts being altered or polished or redacted] volumes of the History.
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