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  • That was the challenge Christopher noted in the forward to the Silmarillion. J.R.R. had started working it in 1917, and kept making changes right up until his death in 1973.

    So he had 56 years worth of papers, and notes, lots of it hand written, to try to kind of reconcile into a single work.



  • “A complete consistency (either within the compass of the Silmarillion itself or between The Silmarillion and other published writings of my father’s) is not to be looked for, and could only be achieved, if at all, at heavy and needless cost.”

    • Christopher Tolkien
      The Silmarillian Forward, 1977