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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.
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Erm- the vast bulk of the 1977 text
is from the post-Lord of ther Rings period: the Grey Annals, the Annals of Aman, and the early- and late-50's phases of revision to the Quenta Silmarillion. CRT only reverted to earlier material when there simply wasn't anything later to work from.
CRT's "Silmlite" (as you sneeringly call it) also has
structure and
pacing, something the Professor had lost in his piecemeal rewritings. (This is also a major flaw in this forum's Billy Idol* Silmarillion project).
* More, more, more!
04-13-2007, 03:57 PM
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