The Hall of Fire

Michael Drout has apparently done some similar reconstruction. In a recent interview, when asked about the Children of Húrin , he states: "I gather that this is simply a rearrangement and collation of the materials found elsewhere in The History of Middle-earth volumes. I have reconstructed som...

Yes, I do realize that I have a high threshold of tolerance for the Lost Tales, but they are the only narrative accounts of what happens deep inside Doriath and Gondolin as they fall - 2 very important events, by all counts. Admittedly I’ve learned to bypass inconsistencies, which I’ve found to be s...

JRRT! I thought about it, but figured a Maia speaking those words was close enough to an undislosed narrator writing them. Bottom line is that, according to my strict counting procedures, they were JRRT's words, not CT's. Like I said, I was very liberal towards CT! And don't go defending him on me, ...

In fact, its over 2/3 complete editorial invention (68.5%), thus this chapter belongs more on a Guy Gavriel Kay website than a JRRT one! (Of course that would be ignoring CT's masterminding). The only way to make sense of this chapter IMHO is to somehow reason that scribes of later ages, surfacing i...

I just had to skip ahead to Chapter 22!

(And nothing was manipulated to win the bet! )

Okay, Voronwë, a "heads-up" tally since I'm at the quarter-mark (chapter-wise, if not page-wise)... First seven chapters: 19891 total words 93.5% JRRT (18609.5 words) 28.5% Ainulindalë C/D (5669.5 words) 16% Valaquenta / VQ2 (3228 words) 5% Of the Ents & the Eagles (958.5 words) 25% La...

words, strictly words... (check my "Here's how:" section)

I could give you the raw numbers, but that would be pointless. Percentages portray a better picture, no?

(Voronwë, we could lay bets on those later chapters... )

Voronwë requested that I post and edit this follow-up to Arda Reconstructed . Using his work as a guide, I’ve apportioned the chapter-by-chapter wordcount of the published Sil between the various JRRT texts & CT’s edits/manipulations/inventions (so far for 9 chapters, more to come ASAP)… Here’s ...

Hope nobody minds, but I linked to this great discussion in a tORn RR post, regarding Túrin, final prophecy, and a possible end to The Tale of the Children of Húrin . Not much action over there, but it was a lingering thing that I wanted to complete. Now that its over, I'll be more vigilant here. :)...

Here is a reply by David Bratman in a recent exchange on the Mythsoc website: ***** At 03:51 PM 12/1/2006 -0800, Jason Fisher wrote: >And BTW, there are rumors that some of the surnames of the sort you >mentioned above may have come from a Kentucky telephone book or something >like that. Mis-memory ...

I think the truth lies somewhere in between Davenport and Bratman. The influence of Kentuckian Allen Barnett on Tolkien has been stifled by the Tolkien Estate and Carpenter, so much that in Letters and Biography he doesn't even exist. One has to go to Grotta's overly maligned biography (riddled with...

Alas, probably not. But we can cross our fingers! In fact I would give up a finger right now - one of the middle ones on my left hand, honestly - for CT to include it, preceded by The Wanderings of Húrin , and the last paragraphs of the Turambar and the Foalókë - Lost Tale (with names altered to be ...

Yes, Mithluin, as chance has it! ;-) Its as nice to meet you online, as it was to meet you in person! And thanks to all that welcomed me here - I only peeked in as I saw Mith's name as the current poster - but I just remarked on Voronwë's Silmarillion thread after lurking there quite some time. And ...