"Concerning... 'The Hoard'" revealed - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

gondowe · 08-09-2022, 09:10 AM

This is extraordinary. Things are finally coming to light. And this was capital, in my opinion.
But there is something that makes me doubt about the date of the manuscript, and it is the mention it makes of The Sons of the Valar for the Last Battle, in 1964????
It is assumed that circa 1958-60 the idea of the Children of the Valar was abandoned, if I am not mistaken.
There is a first mention of The Hoard in 1961 in a letter to Pauline Baynes.

Could it be that this manuscript is assumed erroneously to be from 1964, as it is attached to the letter, although Tolkien expressly says in it that he attached the said "screed" that "I wrote in answer to your remarks about the poem called The Hoard"?

What do you think?

Greetings

08-09-2022, 09:10 AM	#7
gondowe Wight Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 247	This is extraordinary. Things are finally coming to light. And this was capital, in my opinion. But there is something that makes me doubt about the date of the manuscript, and it is the mention it makes of The Sons of the Valar for the Last Battle, in 1964???? It is assumed that circa 1958-60 the idea of the Children of the Valar was abandoned, if I am not mistaken. There is a first mention of The Hoard in 1961 in a letter to Pauline Baynes. Could it be that this manuscript is assumed erroneously to be from 1964, as it is attached to the letter, although Tolkien expressly says in it that he attached the said "screed" that "I wrote in answer to your remarks about the poem called The Hoard"? What do you think? Greetings