Do you consider The Silmarillion to be fully "canon"? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Galin · 11-06-2012, 08:03 AM

I consider as 'canon'

The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
The Road Goes Ever On
The Pauline Baynes map

Of notable weight

Nomenclature

So, stuff Tolkien himself published, or in the case of the map (if I recall correctly), something he knew was going to be published. The unfinished work is a different animal, although for a guide like Robert Foster's guide for example (which to my mind now acts as a kind of 'internal guide' compared to other approaches), I would consider Christopher Tolkien's Silmarillion and The Children of Hurin as 'community canon'... for lack of a better term at the moment.

11-06-2012, 08:03 AM	#12
Galin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,036	I consider as 'canon' The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings The Adventures of Tom Bombadil The Road Goes Ever On The Pauline Baynes map Of notable weight Nomenclature So, stuff Tolkien himself published, or in the case of the map (if I recall correctly), something he knew was going to be published. The unfinished work is a different animal, although for a guide like Robert Foster's guide for example (which to my mind now acts as a kind of 'internal guide' compared to other approaches), I would consider Christopher Tolkien's Silmarillion and The Children of Hurin as 'community canon'... for lack of a better term at the moment.