Here's another hard one...

[HerenIstarion]

whoa Filanndriel, great piece of poking among dusty oldies you performed here [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] And BW using {sp}, hehe.

OK, Christopher published Silmarillion, which was compiled of his father's stories , but selected and edited those according to his (C's) own wisdom. Later he did discover and publish a lot of other notes of JRRT's, which in many places contradict what is said in Silmarillion compilation (aka Silm77, as it was published in 1977). The latter is known as History of Middle Earth Series, aka HoME, and there are XII volumes of it already published (XIII on the way AFAIK, but it will not include any stories, but indexing only)

PS, Ham is not the farmer, it's a village which farmer Giles was from.

PPS You can view the whole list of Tolkien's books
HERE

and PPPS Welcome to the Downs [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[ November 15, 2002: Message edited by: HerenIstarion ]