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William Cloud Hicklin · 02-20-2013, 10:59 AM

if we want to make a reconstruction of his History (and of Celeborn) coherent with the whole legendarium

Why?

Anyway, be a "ghost" sentence, Tolkien did not repare in it in the revision of TLOTR

Tolkien while brilliant was not infallible; the LR is littered with uncorrected lines he overlooked during revision- that's what a 'ghost' is, as in the 'ghost' of an earlier draft. Just for two examples, Aragorn's "sleep without fear" statement in Caras Galadon, and Pippin seeing the moon rising rather than setting on the night of the war-beacons.

02-20-2013, 10:59 AM	#50
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	if we want to make a reconstruction of his History (and of Celeborn) coherent with the whole legendarium Why? Anyway, be a "ghost" sentence, Tolkien did not repare in it in the revision of TLOTR Tolkien while brilliant was not infallible; the LR is littered with uncorrected lines he overlooked during revision- that's what a 'ghost' is, as in the 'ghost' of an earlier draft. Just for two examples, Aragorn's "sleep without fear" statement in Caras Galadon, and Pippin seeing the moon rising rather than setting on the night of the war-beacons. __________________ 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.