[William Cloud Hicklin]

Warning: Neither Arda Reconstructed nor "Airryn" can be taken literally, because both operate on the false premise that the texts published in HME represent the totality of JRRT's manuscripts, and particularly make the mistake of assuming that the texts as published in HME represent their final state: in general, CT published the original state of each, and only included such emendations as he considered significant. In other words, assigning a particular phrase to "CT editorial change" simply because it isn't found in HME is an unwarranted assumption.

CT rejected AR, largely on that basis, ands pointed out that no such "brick-by-brick" analysis is possible without reference to his own private "History of the Silmarillion," an enormous tome which tracks every single variant reading and name in his father's manuscripts. (To my knowledge, nobody but Christopher has ever read it).