Timeline for What (fictional) perspective is "Of the Third Age and the Rings of Power" written from?
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| Oct 5, 2021 at 15:16 | history | edited | ibid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2021 at 1:54 | comment | added | ibid | @Spencer - Well this is his segue. "Before I did X, so now I'm doing Y". | |
| Jul 30, 2021 at 21:17 | comment | added | Spencer | Just pointing out the irony. | |
| Jul 30, 2021 at 20:17 | comment | added | ibid | @Spencer - Yes, this quote is from the introduction to said work | |
| Jul 30, 2021 at 16:24 | comment | added | Spencer | But in the end, CT did create the "complex of divergent texts interlinked by commentary"; i.e. HoME. | |
| Jul 30, 2021 at 3:35 | history | edited | ibid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2021 at 15:51 | comment | added | cometaryorbit | @ibid True, good point | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 14:09 | comment | added | ibid | @cometaryorbit - it should be noted though that the book as published doesn't do so, and even if it had it would have just been Christopher, not JRRT. | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 11:22 | comment | added | cometaryorbit | @ibid yeah, I think that is what "wrongly, as I think now" must mean; that the Bilbo origin should have been overtly given. | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 9:26 | comment | added | ibid | @DavidRoberts - From reading the BoLT intro, it seems that Christopher felt in hindsight that he should have explicitly added a statement about it being from Translation from the Elvish. "and (wrongly, as I think now) I was reluctant to step into the breach and make definite what I only surmised." I think this is him saying that he should have done more editing here, not less. (Personally I think the Ælfwine framework should have been kept, but I'm not Christopher.) | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 8:57 | comment | added | cometaryorbit | OK, perfect, thank you! | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 8:57 | vote | accept | cometaryorbit | ||
| Jul 29, 2021 at 8:26 | comment | added | David Roberts | The published work has no 'framework', no suggestion of what it is and how (within the imagined world) it came to be. This I now think to have been an error. -Christopher Tolkien | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 8:24 | comment | added | David Roberts | "He says that he thinks his father's intent was to tell the story without any framing device and instead just include a note about how it was recorded." <--- didn't CJRT in the end regret wholly removing the framing, and was just not confident enough to explicitly say the Silm was Translations from the Elvish? At least, I vaguely recall something like this from listening to the Mythgard Academy HoME series. | |
| Jul 28, 2021 at 5:45 | history | answered | ibid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |