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07-01-2009, 12:09 PM | #1 |
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The daughters of Fingwe
While making a research for my new facebook quiz,I found a reference to Findis and Imwe,the two daughters of Fingwe and Indis.Does anyone know in which book they are mentionned?Neither "the Silmarillion" nor "Unfinished Tales"include them to the geneological trees of the House of Fingwe.
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07-01-2009, 12:24 PM | #2 | |
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Whether or not Findis and Írimë are canonical is a whole mess of issues. When Christopher Tolkien was assembling The Silmarillion, he mostly drew from the mostly completed Quenta Silmarillion of the late 1930s, and from the more complete materials of the 1950s. "The Shibboleth of Fëanor," quite apart from not being a story, per say, is only utilised in the published Silmarillion insofar as Christopher Tolkien used it as a guide to the latest (I dare not say "final") preferences of his father in terms of names for the royal Noldor. Together with other later texts in the last few History of Middle-earth books, "The Shibboleth of Fëanor" was not published in Unfinished Tales because at the time that collection was published, Christopher Tolkien was not aiming at publishing as complete a corpus of Middle-earth as possible, but as many tales (preferably on the completer side) as possible. Ummm... I think that should answer the textual end of the question, anyway.
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07-07-2009, 12:16 PM | #3 |
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Wow,I couldn't even dream of a better answer!
Unfortunately," The History of Middle-Earth"is not translated in greek yet and,as usual,the original book is too rare to be found.There is only one "summary" in greek,there is no way to compare it with the complete edition,though. Anyway,thank you very much Formendacil!!!!
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