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"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

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Author

Douglas Charles Kane

Publisher

Lehigh University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611460568

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Poetry

Rating

3.91 / 5 (17 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14