Christopher Tolkien to finish lost Middle Earth novel - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

**lindil** · 09-25-2006, 10:01 AM

Aiwendil thanks for doing the math on the new books contents.

I think CRT may well flesh out some of the more compressed material.
Whether Wanderings makes it as anything other than an appendix is the question.

I would not be suprised.

I really wonder whether this bodes more such treatments?

Also he may take the moment to put in the missing accounts he mentions in XI. I think the trolls in the Nirnaeth scene is one. Underhillo?

As for Silmarillion 'obscolesence'...what could have rendered it less than THE account, than UT and HoME 1-5 and X-XII already did?

09-25-2006, 10:01 AM	#33
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	Aiwendil thanks for doing the math on the new books contents. I think CRT may well flesh out some of the more compressed material. Whether Wanderings makes it as anything other than an appendix is the question. I would not be suprised. I really wonder whether this bodes more such treatments? Also he may take the moment to put in the missing accounts he mentions in XI. I think the trolls in the Nirnaeth scene is one. Underhillo? As for Silmarillion 'obscolesence'...what could have rendered it less than THE account, than UT and HoME 1-5 and X-XII already did? __________________ The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light. Last edited by lindil; 09-25-2006 at 10:12 AM. Reason: addition