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A comparison with The Children of Hurin is inapt: The Narn i Chin Hurin was a single work, the product of a concentrated effort over a few years, and consistent in narrative and style, even if some segments were not filled in (neither were they in the Long Tuor: the version in UT was to some extent also 'reconstructed' by CT). Whereas this pricey Gondolin project tries to merge two versions separated by nearly all of Tolkien's writing career, and the multiple revisions of history, mythology and language- it doesn't work.
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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