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The phrase “community canon” fails for me because any canon depends on a community that accepts it.
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Well I only used this phrase within a very specific context in any case (when potentially constructing an 'internal' guide for public consumption).
I draw a notable line between Tolkien-published material and what is essentially draft text, or unfinished works in progress... putting the word 'canon' in quotation marks above because I don't like the word, and have seen various opinions on how to define the term with respect to Tolkien's work.
Christopher Tolkien, Foreword to The War of the Jewels:
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'I would say that ['The Silmarillion'] can only be defined in terms of its own history; and that history is with this book largely completed. ... It is indeed the only 'completion' possible, because it was always 'in progress'; the published work is not in any way a completion, but a construction devised out of the existing materials. Those materials are now made available ... and with them a criticism of the 'constructed' Silmarillion becomes possible.'
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I use these materials to imagine my own personal Silmarillion, and to discuss Tolkien's world of course, but that said, behind it all is the awareness that later in life Tolkien was still revising or tinkering with things both 'large and small' (in my opinion) -- while at the same time some of the texts of the Silmarillion actually date back to the later 1930s, or even 1930.