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Originally posted by The Squatter of Amon Rûdh
Enough about poetry. Although my tone above may be a bit severe, I was very flattered to be invited to comment. I've been staying well away from the revised Silmarillion because I've not read through my HoME properly yet, so for my opinion to be considered worth having is a nice surprise. I make no claim to be a great versifier, and I'm certainly not the most informed person when it comes to Tolkien, but I hope my comments have been useful.
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Your comments were more helpful than I thought possible. I'm hopeful that you will continue to post and I'm eager to see your recomendations in the other parts that we have worked on.
Your suggestions for the enmedations for the Poems to me at least seems very good, but it is your first comment that made me think about the usage of the Poems.
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Originally posted by The Squatter of Amon Rûdh
I've had a chance to read through those poems and the alterations. Before I go through them I ought to say that although I appreciate what the group are trying to achieve, I really think that the poems should be excluded if they won't fit without amendment. The Horns of Ylmir particularly relies on the juxtaposition of the soft, sweet Land of Willows and the hard, bitter shore for its main effect, and although changing the tense of the last stanza preserves this to some extent, it is still very much weakened and the symmetry of the work destroyed by the loss of the opening lines. In any case I found the sensation of a wild dream brought on by Ylmir's music to be much more powerful than the sense of actually being by the sea.
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I'm of the opinion that it would be a shame indeed not to include those Poems in our work, however the idea that our enmedations do water down the work of Tolkien is an idea that I had not considered as a factor. I wonder perhaps Squatter if there is a way in which the Poems could be altered in a way as to preserve them in our works. Now that jallanite is no longer here, I think that either you or Aiwendil must be the ones who would have the chance to do that.