a SURVEY - if you can spare a moment

[Beren87]

By writing the guide from the perspective of a 4th age scholar one would be able to present the many developments, changes and inconsistencies contained in the whole corpus (especially if one wants to include UT, BoLT and HoME)

What your saying sounds more like A than B. B is showing the final result more or less, while A shows the behind the scenes.