General discussion about the verse material

[Findegil]

Posted by lindil:

I would first off suggest a parallel text for the Beren & Luthien Chapter, as far as possible.

Leaving space in either column when there is no parallel material.

This preserves both sources and allows the reader to move back and forth w/ out missing either.

Do you mean this as a working procedure or as the final result? As final result, I think it will not fit our goal for the Translation from the Elvish.
Anyway, the Lay of Leithian and Of Beren and Lúthein is not the kind of sources that strice my as being very much appart. We have as jet in this project combined "silently" sources that were much more contradicting each other in deatil and in essential features of the story (like The Wanderings of Húrin and The Nauglafring).

Posted by lindil:

I have never spent anytime considering the Narn issue, so I will pass over it.

That does baffle me completly. I ever imagined that the Narn read in combination with the missing parts of the story in the Sil77 was some kind of starting point for the project.

Respectfully
Findegil

[lindil]

Fin. in regards to your bafflement re: my opinion on the Narn. What I meant was that I had never considered it in any serious detail. That it needed to happen and that it would involve the grey annals, 77/99 and UT's Narn was a given. Just never pondered the details. Indeed it was however the first set of texts I conflated by switching back to the 77/99 when the UT Narn left gaps.

As for the parallel idea - It would make sense for a working basis IF you can overcome the technical difficulties of posting 2 columns here on the downs. Perhaps if it seems desirable to all, it could be done in some other format and shared offboard.