Timeline for What to read in History of Middle-earth?
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| Jun 10, 2021 at 21:56 | comment | added | David Roberts | My sentence did include the word "perhaps". It wasn't an imperative :-) Thanks for explaining your reasoning. | |
| Jun 10, 2021 at 16:12 | comment | added | ibid | @DavidRoberts - My answer doesn't summarize the contents of any of the twelve volumes. It's a list of suggested texts to read, grouped by the volume they appear in. Consider all twelve volumes to be omitted in their entirety, and then a few select passages from the series added back in. Me recommending twenty odd pages from volume five doesn't mean that I'm suggesting the rest of volume five is more important than volume four. | |
| Jun 10, 2021 at 11:58 | comment | added | David Roberts | sure, but one might naturally wonder what's in the other volumes, and it was only one sentence giving the briefest summary, making the omissions then self-evident. | |
| Jun 10, 2021 at 10:07 | comment | added | ibid | @DavidRoberts - I excluded nearly all of the other seven volumes as well. This answer is just a list of stuff to read, not stuff to not read. | |
| Jun 10, 2021 at 7:12 | comment | added | David Roberts | It's worth pointing out, perhaps, why you excluded HoME I, IV, VI–VIII. The first two I guess because it's all stuff that was superseded by the Silmarillion proper (Quenta Silmarillion and the later Annals?), and VI–VIII because they are the history of (the drafts of) Lord of the Rings. | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 17:35 | history | edited | Mary | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2021 at 17:05 | history | answered | ibid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |