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Tolkien R.J.J
Rivendell
Aug 15 2018, 9:45pm
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Questions About Arda Reconstructed
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I am almost done Morgoths ring and next is the war of the jewels. So my question to anyone who owns arda reconstructed. Is it really needed if you have Morgoths ring and Jewels? and what text does it argue should be the true Sillmarillion?
Thanks.
“I am a Christian, that fact can be deduced from my stories.”
-J.R.R Tolkien
“I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humour (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late.”
J.R.R Tolkien
“Tolkien was a lifelong enemy of big government in every form, not just the harsher forms we find in soviet communism, German Nazism, or Italian fascism, but also as it manifested itself in British democratic socialism and the mongol state capitalism in other parts of the west.”
-Jonathan Witt and Jay W The Hobbit Party: The vision of freedom that Tolkien got and the west forgot
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CuriousG
Half-elven
Aug 17 2018, 6:46pm
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I haven’t read Morgoth’s Ring and War of the Jewels except to browse a few parts, and that was long ago, so can’t really comment there.
And it’s been years since I read Arda Recon while we were doing a read-thru of The Sil here, but I don’t recall Doug arguing for a particular version of The Sil, though he made his preferences for certain parts known, and at other times questioned why Chris Tolkien made specific editorial decisions (such as leaving out a short sentence that Galadriel dwelled in Menegroth and spoke often with Melian “and there was much love between them,” or something close to that. Why was that omitted?).
I recall Arda Recon being more helpful in giving background commentary on how some chapters were constructed: what was chosen and what was left out and/or modified. So if the chapter on Aule & Yavanna seems a little choppy, for example, it’s because it was spliced together, so it really is choppy.
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Voronwë_the_Faithful
Valinor
Aug 19 2018, 6:58pm
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Necessity is in the eyes of the beholder
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Arda Reconstructed isn't meant to replace Morgoth's Ring and The War of the Jewels, it is meant to supplement them. The purpose of the book isn't to identify the "real Silmarillion"; so far as I can tell there really isn't such a thing. The purpose of the book is to attempt to trace as much as possible the sources of the various parts of the published book and to determine as much as possible what editorial changes were made by Christopher Tolkien and his assistant, Guy Kay.
'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'
The Hall of Fire
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