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It does answer my question, thanks Faramir. I had done my own search for commentary about Kortirion in both letters and H&S's work (chronology and so forth), but it looks like there is no new commentary in the new book with respect to the specific question I wonder about.
I might buy it anyway! But even Tolkien's 'too long and too ambitious and even if considered good enough would probably upset the boat' doesn't necessarily speak to my question: "upset the boat" in what sense?
My question continues to be, if Tolkien considered the revised poem to be internal -- that is, a translation of some Middle-earthian author and not a reflection on Warwick by JRR Tolkien the poet --
... then who is the imagined author? And more importantly, what is this Kortirion... that the Edain built?
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