Timeline for Is there a hidden significance behind the fact Galadriel gave 3 hairs to Gimli instead of one?
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| Sep 29 at 17:41 | comment | added | Dan | Wait…the amount of detail that The Professor had thought out, down to calendars matching in days between the sundered fellowship members, and multiple languages evolving concurrently and characters being present throughout all the ages and he wasn’t going to have a connection like this thought out? Whether he wrote it out first or not, when he wrote Galadriel giving Gimli THREE hairs, and the words she said about courtesy, HE KNEW EXACTLY what he was doing. When he wrote that, they WERE connected whether he wrote Unfinished Tales first or not (or the notes). It’s absurd to think otherwise. | |
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| Sep 29, 2017 at 2:11 | history | edited | Blackwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 20, 2017 at 19:15 | comment | added | Pryftan | @Blackwood Right. That section of UT I have read though I don't remember much of it but unlike the others I've not read them more than once. And it was a while back. I have this vague memory of it now. Thanks for confirming this. In retrospect I think the only reason I thought he didn't go back to these stories after is because he was always fond of his mythology. But that's rather silly of me because this time period is in TS so it makes sense that it would be revisited! Thanks for the confirmation. | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 1:58 | comment | added | Blackwood | @Pryftan Thanks for the comment, I have edited the answer to show the quote is also in Unfinished Tales, but still dated 1968 or later according to Christopher Tolkien. | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 1:49 | history | edited | Blackwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 20, 2017 at 1:43 | comment | added | Blackwood | The passage that mentions Fëanor asking Galadriel three times for a tress of her hair is indeed in Unfinished Tales. It is described as part of a "primarily philological essay, certainly written after The Road Goes Ever On". The Road Goes Ever On was published in 1968. | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 1:23 | comment | added | Pryftan | @Blackwood Or am I reading that wrong? I could have sworn someone said above it was in UT but maybe it's actually in HoME (or both)? Anyway, appreciate the comment. | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 1:22 | comment | added | Pryftan | @Blackwood Interesting, thank you :) For some reason I always assumed the Unfinished Tales came first but thinking about it now I never actually gave it conscious thought (I've read parts of UT but not fully); it does seem odd somehow but it's probably only odd in that for some reason I anticipated they would come first for whatever reason. Thanks for the information. I really should continue reading HoME but I have a lot going on and I have other books I read as well (often more than one book at the same time but right now none). And I suppose there could be an earlier version but who knows? | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 17:10 | comment | added | Blackwood | @Pryftan. After writing The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien returned to work on the stories of the First Age. HoME says that the passage I quoted was written on the back of a publication note dated February 1968. While this may the be earliest existing version of this event, it's always possible that there was an earlier version that was lost. | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 16:59 | comment | added | Pryftan | @Buzz and also Blackwood. Even if it was written after The LR (which seems odd to me since Fëanor was dead long before The War of the Ring) it still happens long before. Mind you I've not read that far into HoME (mostly because things keep coming up so I only get so far and then I want to start over) so maybe it's said there that it was written after but either way it seems only a trivial issue. | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 12:41 | history | edited | Blackwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 19, 2017 at 1:37 | history | edited | Blackwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 9, 2017 at 20:12 | comment | added | Buzz | Of course, that part of the legendarium was written after the Lord of the Rings. | |
| Sep 9, 2017 at 0:09 | history | answered | Blackwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |