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from a letter to Christopher Tolkien (August, 1945), J. R. R. Tolkien
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from a letter to Christopher Tolkien (August, 1945), J. R. R. Tolkien
nothing, just tolkien originally writing down the hobbit because his son christopher kept complaining that he'd change the details from night to night and then christopher later being so crucial in taking tolkien's notes and turning them into fully written novels of worldbuilding. loving someone to the point of creation and then having them help you finish the job.
Reading Sauron Defeated is so great, because the first drafts Tolkien wrote of some scenes (that he ended up deleting) are SO INTERESTING
(Part 2 / Part 3)
While in the crack of doom, when Frodo claims the ring and puts it on, he sees the eye and almost immediately regrets it, but when he tries to take the ring off, he can’t.
In another draft, Gollum kills himself by throwing himself into the fire after finally having the ring. (And Sam stabs a black rider)
In another draft, Sam kills Gollum (this appears in several drafts btw, so it’s a recurring idea Tolkien had)
(Btw, I’m I reading it right? Does “hurls himself and Gollum into the gulf” mean they both die?)
In another (one of the ones where Sam kills Gollum), the wizard king (the witch king) appears, and tries to stop Sam and Frodo from leaving (which would kill them), but fear not because Frodo tells him to kill himself, and he does.
Lobelia dies in a fight before the hobbits return to the shire (during Saruman’s rule)
About Frodo leaving to Valinor:
Sam and Frodo leaving to Valinor at the same time when they’re old :(
(Frodo was originally called Bingo)
About “Frodo rides to the Havens and says farewell to Bilbo”, Christopher Tolkien believes his father wrote in a hurry and accidentally wrote Bilbo instead of Sam.
I love Tolkien’s notes because those are exactly my notes when I write and I think about a scene
" A Description of the Island of Númenor ": a reconstruction In 1980, only three years after having presented The Silmarillion to readers, C
In 2021 The Nature of Middle-earth was published,[3] a book edited by Carl Hostetter and presenting, in a similar manner to that of Unfinished Tales, disparate texts on varying subjects. Among them are two texts, respectively entitled 'Lives of the Númenóreans'[4] (Part III, chapter XI) and 'Of the Land and Beasts of Númenor'[5] (Part III, chapter XIII), from which Christopher Tolkien built the text published in Unfinished Tales. In reality, LN and LBN form a single document, existing in three different versions, but always continuous, LBN following on from LN in footnote 5.[6]
This short essay aims to “reconstruct” the text 'A Description of the Island of Númenor' by visualizing which elements Christopher Tolkien extracted from one or another of the source texts to recreate it, but also, to complete the LBN text which was not presented in full by Carl Hostetter in Nature.
"The most vocal critics of this show are Peter Jackson stans, not Tolkien fans. One thing that’s brought up to bash ROP is that Amazon didn’t consult with PJ. Look I love the films too, but it’s not like they followed “book canon” or as if PJ is some authority or Tolkien scholar. RoP has the support of the Tolkien estate, and Simon Tolkien is the series consultant; something PJ never had, btw. Christopher Tolkien actually hated the films."
J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter to Christopher Tolkien, 30th April 1944
WHO IS SOGGIER AND/OR MORE PATHETIC
Christopher Tolkien
Denethor
Christopher Tolkien: it takes a very pathetic and soggy guy to edit your father’s ramblings and then publish it. Also removed Celegorm’s golden hair because he’s a dick.
Denethor: Tomato. Also he was a lot sadder and more of a cringe fail despairing dilf in the books. Set himself on fire and then ran what seemed like one whole km while on fire to plummet to his death. Dedicated