Christopher Tolkien - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Tarthang · 07-16-2002, 08:21 AM

Personally, I think CT should have never have published the Silm, and only done the
HoME series.
The way I see it, all the differing versions of the same stories in HoME were JRRT's way of feeling out how he wanted to present ME's First Age. The fact that he never managed to finish leaves for a large margin of error
in CT's (or anyone elses) synthesis of these
versions (i.e. the Silm). Simply because no one can be certain that's how the story would have been presented in it's final form by JRRT, had he completed this task.

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07-16-2002, 08:21 AM	#12
Tarthang Wight Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Paths of the Dead Posts: 108	Personally, I think CT should have never have published the Silm, and only done the HoME series. The way I see it, all the differing versions of the same stories in HoME were JRRT's way of feeling out how he wanted to present ME's First Age. The fact that he never managed to finish leaves for a large margin of error in CT's (or anyone elses) synthesis of these versions (i.e. the Silm). Simply because no one can be certain that's how the story would have been presented in it's final form by JRRT, had he completed this task.