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**lindil** · 01-23-2002, 03:03 PM

Thingol asked:are you guys actually going to write in narrative form, like Tolkien
wrote about the journey of Tuor, or are you just writing a summary, similiar
to how the fall of Gondolin appears in the Silm (With more info of coarse)?

The goal is to incorporate all of the omitted/unfinished / newly discovered /archaic, etc material available in HoME/UT/VT etc. w/ an absolute minimum of editing, and no real 'creative writing' or fan-fictionalizing as we call it. So that in some sense it will be as legitamate as CRt's [except we are not literary executor's and/or sons ] but will include everything possible where as CRT put in his Silm pretty much the bare minimum.
The going is very slow becuause the issues are very convoluted and difficult and there are a number of legitamete ways to approach the material and each member represents one of them!

Thingol: I don't want to buy the 3 volume addition off Amazon for 100 bucks a volume.
Lindil: don't blame you , tr6y the many used bookstores in NY [?] and you will eventually see all of hoME in HB - be sure to check literature sections and not just sci-fi/fantasy. I usually see them for 10-15 $ each. And feel free to pick me up a spare HB lays of Beleriand , the only non LotR HoME vol. I am missing!

lindil

01-23-2002, 03:03 PM	#7
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	Thingol asked:are you guys actually going to write in narrative form, like Tolkien wrote about the journey of Tuor, or are you just writing a summary, similiar to how the fall of Gondolin appears in the Silm (With more info of coarse)? The goal is to incorporate all of the omitted/unfinished / newly discovered /archaic, etc material available in HoME/UT/VT etc. w/ an absolute minimum of editing, and no real 'creative writing' or fan-fictionalizing as we call it. So that in some sense it will be as legitamate as CRt's [except we are not literary executor's and/or sons ] but will include everything possible where as CRT put in his Silm pretty much the bare minimum. The going is very slow becuause the issues are very convoluted and difficult and there are a number of legitamete ways to approach the material and each member represents one of them! Thingol: I don't want to buy the 3 volume addition off Amazon for 100 bucks a volume. Lindil: don't blame you , tr6y the many used bookstores in NY [?] and you will eventually see all of hoME in HB - be sure to check literature sections and not just sci-fi/fantasy. I usually see them for 10-15 $ each. And feel free to pick me up a spare HB lays of Beleriand , the only non LotR HoME vol. I am missing! lindil __________________ The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.