What are Tolkien's lasting writings?
Can someone point to what Tolkien's last writings were, as in, his last notes or drafts or writings whether on the subject of LOTR, or last revisions of The Silmarillion say between 1969 and 1973?
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I think one of his last writings was on Glorfindel of Rivendell being Glorfindel of Gondolin..but I would have to check to be certain.
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I think his last writign was about Galadriel.
353, 4 August 1973-one month later he died. Galadriel was 'unstained': she had committed no evil deeds. She was an enemy of Fëanor. She did not reach Middle-earth with the other Noldor, but independently. Her reasons for desiring to go to Middle-earth were legitimate, and she would have been permitted to depart, but for the misfortune that before she set out the revolt of Fëanor broke out, and she became involved in the desperate measures of Manwe, and the ban on all emigration. "A wholly different story, adumbrated but never told of Galadriel's conduct at the time of the rebellion of the Noldor appears in a very late and partly illegible note: the last writing of my father's on the subject of Galadriel and Celebron, and probably the last on Middle-earth and Valinor, set down in the last month of his life" - |
A good resource is here: http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/md_hmch.html#sixties
The latest writings, in chronological order, are:
In addition to these, there are a number of other works such as the writings associated with the 2nd edition LotR and 3rd Edition Hobbit (which were both much later in Tolkien's life than may seem to be the case), as well as the abandoned 1960s rewriting of the Hobbit itself. |
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