* *A New Project ~~~ Revising the Ainulindale* *

[Aiwendil]

Antoine wrote:

But in Home 10 Christopher Tolkien wrote :

Yes, there are other footnotes in the text. But this, the comment at hand, was not a footnote.

I m definitively with you, this Ainulindale needs to be the document existed in Arda, not the one from Aman, that is lost ; but the one that crossed the 3 ages of Middle Earth ... and if Pengolod put some quoth in the original text ... it looks for me more "authentic".

I would agree if the comment were a written footnote in the original text. But in the original text it is not; it is rather a spoken comment made to Aelfwine.

I do not think that we can simply commute spoken comments made to Aelfwine into written footnotes made in the text.