Have you red or the intention to red Arda Reconstructed

[gondowe]

In my presentation I wrote that I was expecting for this book. But now I wonder if Douglas Kane, had access to the whole (or more or less) original manuscripts or only managed the published books and essays, like us.

What do you think about this question?

Greetings.

[Aran e-Godhellim]

I am unaware of any book by this title. What is it?

[gondowe]

I know of it's publication for April of this year more or less a year ago.
You can search in google but more or less explain how was constructed the published Silmarillion by CRT. Which sources, inventions, editing, etc, and it could be interesting if the author Douglas Kane (or I think Voronwë the Faithful) had managed original sources.

It's near what are we doing.

Greetings

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Originally Posted by Aran e-Godhellim

I am unaware of any book by this title. What is it?

It's on Amazon...

http://www.amazon.com/Arda-Reconstru.../dp/0980149630

The product info says;

In "Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion", Douglas C. Kane reveals a tapestry woven by Christopher Tolkien from different portions of his father's work that is often quite mind-boggling, with inserts that seemed initially to have been editorial inventions shown to have come from some remote portion of Tolkien's vast body of work. He demonstrates how material that was written over the course of more than thirty years was merged together to create a single, coherent text. He also makes a frank appraisal of the material omitted by Christopher Tolkien (and in a couple of egregious cases the material invented by him) and how these omissions and insertions may have distorted his father's vision of what he considered - even more then "The Lord of the Rings" - to be his most important work. It is a fascinating portrait of a unique collaboration that reached beyond the grave.

It looks a tad out of my price range, through.

[Aiwendil]

I was also unaware of this book, but it's at the top of my list now. Looks very interesting - I wonder particularly about the "inserts that seemed initially to have been editorial inventions shown to have come from some remote portion of Tolkien's vast body of work".

[Aran e-Godhellim]

I agree, Aiwendil. It sounds most intriguing.

[Voronwë_the_Faithful]

Hi folks. Yes Voronwë the Faithful does in fact equal Douglas Kane, and Arda Reconstructed is in fact, my book.

gondowe, to answer your question, no I did not have access to the original manuscripts, only the material published in HoMe, UT, CoH, LotR, Letters, and Words, Phrases, and Passages, etc.

Originally Posted by Aiwendil

I wonder particularly about the "inserts that seemed initially to have been editorial inventions shown to have come from some remote portion of Tolkien's vast body of work".

Aiwendil, examples of that type of thing include a few passages that were taken directly from things included in BOLT that never reappeared, things taken from different essays like Quendi and Eldar, Of Dwarves and Men, the Shibboleth, the Problem of Ros, etc., and passages that were moved from different places (e.g., passages from the Grey Annals inserted into parts of the story that otherwise were covered in the Annals of Aman and the corresponding portion of the Quenta, and otherwise moved around in strange ways). And in one case a passage that seems to have been derived from one the Letters.

Hope that helps. If any of you are Mythlore subscribers there will be a review of the book in the upcoming issue, and there also will be one in this years Tolkien Studies. And you can get more information about the book at www.arda-reconstructed.com

Hookbill, I was disappointed that the publisher set the list price so high, but the reason was that the extensive tables tracing the source material were very time-consuming to set. But I do think those tables provide a very valuable recourse, particularly for this group of folks! And at least Amazon is selling it at a significant discount of 28%.

Cheers to all!