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What is the story behind the text published in the Sil by the way? Is it a complete (early) JRRT text, or has CT interpolated anything into it?
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It is pretty much verbatim the conclusion of the old Quenta Noldorinwa of 1930, which is why it's so compressed and 'distant.' Although T actually recopied this half-chapter into the 1937 Quenta Silmarillion manuscript, he made almost no alterations. CT's editorial hand did little besides the change from "Manwe's son Fionwe" to "Manwe's herald Eonwe."