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Originally Posted by Mithalwen
Though since Christopher drew the maps originally it is less contentious... Given the flak he takes I wonder if CRT ever wishes he just made a huge bonfire.....
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I doubt anyone is 100% happy with every decision CT has made in regard to his father's legacy - himself included, probably. I'm grateful he has made the stuff available, but quite honestly I would have preferred to see more works like The Sil & CoH than HoM-e - but that's me. I've said before that if I had my druthers I'd have liked to see The Book of Lost Tales published as a large format hardback, completed by CT or whoever, with lots of illuminated letters & full colour plates (as Tolkien probably imagined it) rather than the collection of bits of stories (more or less complete) & acres of footnotes. But I accept that many fans prefer the version CT produced. There are certainly changes to LotR that I dislike, & which I've mentioned in the Changes thread, like the new Index (which to me, even though it is more 'useful' than the old one, is not part of the book as I first read it) & the little textual alterations ('need not' for 'do not'
which irks me so much I have to restrain myself from correcting it in biro every time I pick up a '50th'!).