The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum - View Single Post - Christopher Tolkien to finish lost Middle Earth novel

**lindil** · 04-11-2007, 11:19 AM

"I do not read ANY of CT's middle Earth history because much of that material was rejected by Tolkien himself as it did not entirely harmonize with his inner vision."

Newsflash: CJRT edited the Silm. sometimes heavily, sometimes lightly. Some sections [thingols death are pure CJRT fan-fiction]. You want tolkien's 'purest' silmarillion? Better go buy HoME X & XI, as they are:

JRRT's last revised drafts of the Silm material
written after the LotR, his craft only got better w/ age
have much more material than the more 'remote' compressed Pre-LotR summaries CJRT favored in his SilM.

Ultimately every Silmarillion reader who wishes to dive deeper than CJRT's Silmlite has to go to the virtually unedited [in terms of the texts being altered or polished or redacted] volumes of the History.

04-11-2007, 11:19 AM	#125
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	"I do not read ANY of CT's middle Earth history because much of that material was rejected by Tolkien himself as it did not entirely harmonize with his inner vision." Newsflash: CJRT edited the Silm. sometimes heavily, sometimes lightly. Some sections [thingols death are pure CJRT fan-fiction]. You want tolkien's 'purest' silmarillion? Better go buy HoME X & XI, as they are: JRRT's last revised drafts of the Silm material written after the LotR, his craft only got better w/ age have much more material than the more 'remote' compressed Pre-LotR summaries CJRT favored in his SilM. Ultimately every Silmarillion reader who wishes to dive deeper than CJRT's Silmlite has to go to the virtually unedited [in terms of the texts being altered or polished or redacted] volumes of the History. __________________ 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. Last edited by lindil; 04-11-2007 at 11:27 AM.