(urth) Silmarillion

[Lane Haygood]

Tolkien made his living as a professor.  The "background" of the
Silmarillion was to give his world an impetus for his languages to
change, much as our own did, coupled with his desire to formulate a
modern mythology for Great Britain.  Ergo, Silmarillion and all of his
"notes" that have been posthumously edited and published by his son.

LH

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> The man wanted to get paid.
>
> This is not an hypothesis.
>
> .
>
>
>> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 2010/7/7 António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> >>> The Quenta Silmarillion is an unfinished book, but why is it deeply
>>> >>> flawed?
>>> >>
>>> >> Try reading "Of Beleriand and its Realms" without falling asleep.
>>> >
>>> > Is that a matter of not 'leav[ing] out the parts that people skip'?
>>>
>>> It's a matter of not doing a good job of integrating one's infodumps.
>>>
>>>
>> Again, not a novel.  The infodumps were as much for the author's working
>> out
>> of his creative impulse as anything else.  Personally, I'm fascinated by
>> Tolkien's process, and while "Of Beleriand and its Realms" is a hard slog,
>> I'm glad to have it.
>>
>>
>>
>>> --
>>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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