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Christopher Tolkien: Quenta Silmarillion
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Christopher began releasing his father's earlier drafts of the stories as the Lost Tales and History of Middle Earth series. These drafts were often very inconsistent with the later versions. Some of them were abandoned by JRRT, and others were re-written, but none eventually met the standards that Christopher set for Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.
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Clyde S. Kilby, who spent some time with Tolkien in the summer of 1966, noted that he "was always neatly dressed from necktie to shoes. One of his favorite suits was a herringbone with which he wore a green corduroy vest [waistcoat]. Always there was a vest, and nearly always a sport coat. He did not mind wearing a very broad necktie which in those days was out of style" (Tolkien and the Silmarillion (1976), pg. 24).
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From there, Tolkien makes another attempt to write of drowned Númenor/Atlantis using much of the material from The Lost Road. Tolkien couldn’t write a story without inventing a bevy of languages to go with it, and appended to The Notion Club Papers is a report on the Adunaic Language of Númenor, together with two other versions of the Númenor material, “The Drowning of Anadûne,” and the Third Version of the Fall of Númenor. Once again he got stuck. The incredible success of LotR caused him to focus on revising The Silmarillion and precluded his returning to this manuscript.
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Tolkien began writing "The Children of Hurin" 99 years ago, abandoning it and taking it up again repeatedly throughout his life. Versions of the tale already have appeared in "The Silmarillion" and "Unfinished Tales," and as narrative poems or prose sections of the "History of Middle-earth" series.
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It fell to his son Christopher Tolkien to publish these stories. But which version should he use? At first, he decide he had to use the complete version, even though it was much shorter. In 1977, The Silmarillion was published. The story of Húrin's children became chapter 21 of this book (plus small parts of chapters 20 and 22).
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The first of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien's epic tale of war. After the The Lord of the Rings was at last achieved, J R R Tolkien turned his attention once again to 'the Matter of the Elder Days'. The text of the Annals of Aman, the 'Blessed Land' in the far West, is given in full; while in writings hitherto unknown is seen the nature of the problems that Tolkien explored in his later years, as new and radical ideas, portending upheaval in the old narratives, emerged at the heart of the mythology, and as the destinies of Men and Elves, mortals and immortals, ecame of central significance, together with a vastly enlarged perception of the evil of Melkor, the Shadow upon Arda. The second part of this history of the later Silmarillion is concerned with developments in the legends of Beleriand after the completion of The Lord of the Rings.
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