Arda reconstructed : the creation of the published Silmarillion / Douglas Charles Kane.
Kane, Douglas Charles, 1963-
2009
PR6039.O32 S5335 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Arda reconstructed : the creation of the published Silmarillion / Douglas Charles Kane.
Author Kane, Douglas Charles, 1963-
ISBN 9780980149630 (alk. paper)
0980149630 (alk. paper)
Imprint Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press, c2009.
Language English
Description 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PR6039.O32 S5335 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 823/.912
Summary "In Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion, Douglas C. Kane reveals a tapestry woven by Christopher Tolkien from different portions of his father's work that is often quite mind-boggling, with inserts that seem initially to have been editorial inventions shown to have come from some remote portion of Tolkien's vast body of work. He demonstrates how material that was written over the course of more than thirty years was merged together to create a single, coherent text. He also makes a frank appraisal of the material omitted by Christopher Tolkien (and in a couple of egregious cases the material invented by him) and how these omissions and insertions may have distorted his father's vision of what he considered - even more than The Lord of the Rings - to be his most important work. It is a fascinating portrait of a unique collaboration that reached beyond the grave." "In The History of Middle-earth, Christopher Tolkien documents in amazing detail the development of the work of his father that would become the Silmarillion. However, save for an occasional hint here and there, he fails to show the final step: his actual creation (several years after his father's death) of the published work, with the assistance of Guy Kay. As he points out in the foreword to The War of the Jewels (the second of the two volumes of The History of Middle-earth that covers the "later Silmarillion"), the source materials that he used in that task largely have been made available "and with them a criticism of the 'constructed' Silmarillion becomes possible. I shall not enter into that question ... ' " (p. x.)." "The purpose of Arda Reconstructed is to "enter into that question." Kane documents the changes, omissions, and additions that were made to Tolkien's work by Christopher Tolkien (with the assistance of Guy Kay) in preparing the Silmarillion for publication, and traces how the disparate source materials were used to create what is in essence a composite work. He compares the published text with the source texts contained in the volumes of The History of Middle-earth (as well as other works such as Unfinished Tales of Middle-earth and Numenor, The Children of Hurin, and - in one case - Tolkien's letters) and identifies patterns of major and minor changes made to these source materials that result in the reconstruction of the finished text. He also cites the works of some of the most important Tolkien scholars, including Tom Shippey, Verlyn Flieger, Christina Scull, Wayne Hammond, Charles Noad, and David Bratman, in an attempt to understand and explain why these changes may have been made."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-269) and index.
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Introduction: Reconstructing Arda
Pt.1. The Ainulindalë and the Valaquenta
Ainulindalë (the music of the Ainur)
Valaquenta (account of the Valar)
Pt.2. Quenta Silmarillion (the history of the Silmarils)
"Of the beginning of days"
"Of Aulë and Yavanna"
"Of the coming of the elves and the captivity of Melkor"
"Of Thingol and Melian"
"Of Eldmar and the princes of the Eldalië"
"Of Fëanor and the unchaining of Melkor"
"Of the Silmarils and the unrest of the Noldor"
"Of the darkening of Valinor"
"Of the flight of the Noldor"
"Of the Sindar"
"Of the sun and the moon and the hiding of Valinor"
"Of men"
"Of the return of the Noldor"
"Of Beleriand and its realms"
"Of the Noldor in Beleriand"
"Of Maeglin"
"Of the coming of men into the west"
"Of the ruin of Beleriand and the fall of Fingolfin"
"Of Beren and Lúthien"
"Of the fifth battle"
"Of Túrin Turambar"
"Of the ruin of Doriath"
"Of Tuor and the fall of Gonodolin"
"Of the voyage of Eärendil and the war of wrath"
Pt.3. The Akallabêth, of the rings of power and the third age, and the appendices to the Silmarillion
Akallabêth (the downfall of Númenor)
Of the rings of power and the third age
Appendices to the Silmarillion
Conclusion: Arda reconstructed.

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