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Elthir
Grey Havens
Oct 27 2012, 2:25pm
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I'm guessing we fans might never see it because of this description: '... it is so closely based on the rewritten form of the Lay as to read in places almost as a prose paraphrase of the verse.'
Now of course reading verse is different from reading prose, and there are some who don't like reading verse, but the implication seems to be that there is nothing very different of note otherwise, with respect to the tale as a tale, and it's only a part of the story too (not that these things weren't obvious enough I guess).
That doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see it, or you or many other folk of course, but as I say I'm just guessing that this -- possibly plus considerations of length within each volume of HME, is why it was not published in The Lost Road or some other volume.
Do we know when Christopher Tolkien 'found' it? I mean outside of after the Silmarillion was prepared for publication and before The Lost Road was published. I don't remember, although I think it was written, at least in part, on the back of something else... perhaps on one of the versions of the Annals if I recall correctly, without checking The Lost Road And Other Writings again...
... which is all the way in the next room so there's no way I can easily get to it again 
(This post was edited by Elthir on Oct 27 2012, 2:34pm)
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Of Beren and Luthien
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Ardamírë
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Oct 23 2012, 2:45am
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the long prose Beren and Luthien
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Elthir
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Oct 23 2012, 12:04pm
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I knew I had read something like that
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Ardamírë
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Oct 23 2012, 1:17pm
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Where is geordie?
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Ardamírë
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Oct 25 2012, 8:14pm
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browsing through books I bet
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Elthir
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Oct 26 2012, 4:27am
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I hope he returns soon
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Ardamírë
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Oct 26 2012, 1:34pm
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Hullo
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geordie
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Oct 26 2012, 7:26pm
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Thanks for the help
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Ardamírë
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Oct 26 2012, 9:03pm
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Just guessing
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Elthir
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Oct 27 2012, 2:25pm
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Even if it were so close
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Ardamírë
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Oct 27 2012, 3:40pm
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Just dreaming
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Elthir
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Oct 27 2012, 6:02pm
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That would be brilliant
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Ardamírë
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Oct 27 2012, 6:08pm
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