Tolkien Forever
Gondor
Mar 15 2008, 6:49pm
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As we already know the truth about Orodreth's lineage, what's the point?
And as for 'The Wanderings of Hurin', the end in Brethel is so absurd, with the whole place being destroyed over a thrown stool, I guess it should stay in HoME's unfinished tales & not be 'canon' anyhow.
The whole Doriath thing, oh well.
I guess we all need to figure it out for ourselves, right?
And, I think that's fitting as Tolkien came to see the First Age as remote history handed down through the long years via word of mouth & not recorded in black & white.
BTW, Beren IV: I've often pondered The Silm as a TLOR's type book, as The Children of Hurin is & 'Of the Coming of Tour to Gondolin'.....
The Silm would probably reach, as you say several thousand pages, but be a much more 'personal' & deeper read - oh well. 
(This post was edited by Tolkien Forever on Mar 15 2008, 6:52pm)
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