Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

ArcusCalion · 01-21-2018, 12:42 AM

This is a pretty straightforward question, but I am very curious. Where is the textual history of this chapter of the Silmarillion given? Wikipedia says it is given in the Treason of Isengard but I can find only references to one or two passages from it in that book. Is the textual history of the chapter ever given? Or is Christopher Tolkien's version the only one we have available? If the latter is the case, to what extent did he make it up from scratch?

01-21-2018, 12:42 AM	#1
ArcusCalion Quentingolmo Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 525	Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age This is a pretty straightforward question, but I am very curious. Where is the textual history of this chapter of the Silmarillion given? Wikipedia says it is given in the Treason of Isengard but I can find only references to one or two passages from it in that book. Is the textual history of the chapter ever given? Or is Christopher Tolkien's version the only one we have available? If the latter is the case, to what extent did he make it up from scratch?