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Quite, Nerwen. Don't recall anything in the relevant volumes of HoME or any of the letters referring to anything that might support this and since the foundations of Middle Earth were created for personalpleasure more than public consumption it seems unlikely in the extreme. Tolkien wasn't a Kit Williams. Why set a puzzle and not tell anyone? It would be insane. And either he didn't tell Christopher or Christopher has supressed it. Neither scenario seems probable to me given that CRT has been editing his father's works since he kept track of the colours of dwarven hoods in the nursery. And for all the bad press he gets, I don't think anyone has accused CRT of being a d8shonorable scholar.
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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