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Arda Reconstructed - The Creation of the Published Silmarillion (Paperback)
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Arda Reconstructed - The Creation of the Published Silmarillion (Paperback)
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Douglas C. Kane reveals a tapestry woven by Christopher Tolkien
from different portions of his father's work that is often quite
mind-boggling, with inserts that seemed initially to have been
editorial inventions shown to have come from some remote portion of
Tolkien's vast body of work. He demonstrates how material that was
written over the course of more than thirty years was merged
together to create a single, coherent text. He also makes a frank
appraisal of the material omitted and invented by Christopher
Tolkien and how these omissions and insertions may have distorted
his father's vision of what he considered-even more than The Lord
of the Rings-to be his most important work. It is a fascinating
portrait of a unique collaboration that reached beyond the grave.
Kane documents the changes, omissions, and additions and traces how
the disparate source materials were used to create what is in
essence a composite work. He compares the published text with the
source texts contained in the volumes of The History of
Middle-earth as well as other works and identifies patterns of
major and minor changes made to these source materials that
resulted in the reconstruction of the finished text. He also cites
the works of some of the most important Tolkien scholars, including
Tom Shippey, Verlyn Flieger, Christina Scull, Wayne Hammond,
Charles Noad, and David Bratman in an attempt to understand and
explain why these changes may have been made.
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