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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Did the Valar abandon Middle Earth - Third Age?
AKALLABETH was the working title of THE FALL OF NUMENOR/THE DROWNING OF ANADUNE.
1945 is the period where he decided to change the conception of the fall in ANADUNE. He wrote it as Sauron's teachings of the world as flat. In the early 1950's he decided to create a mannish sub-mythology within the mythology. This is where ATHRABETH introduces the awakening of men and servitude under Melkor and the conversion of Last Battle to mannish mythology as some items of interest in support of his developing conceptions. QUENDI AND ELDAR is another text in support of these ideas.
The change can be seen in HISTORY Vol. 9 SAURON DEFEATED; THE DROWNING OF ANADUNE (last section of the book), and where it is carried forward thereafter.
As for different mythologies: only if one insists in patently ignoring the later text as canon, but biasly and discriminatorily content to pick and choose desired information selectively from it does it resemble such. Essentially, they are seperated by a minimum of a quarter of a decade and many exponential ideas.
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