(urth) Silmarillion

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It was based upon his ideas regarding deep history.

In other words.

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> When I was but a young lad in college, I took a course with Prof. Hoyt
> on the linguistics of Middle Earth, including an extensive survey of
> Prof. Tolkien's own writings on the subject, his speeches, and his
> views on language.  The scholarly consensus among such people as H.
> Fauskanger (who runs the Ardalambion website) is that Tolkien's
> literary works served as a backdrop for him to experiment with the
> changing field of philology and its metamorphosis into modern
> linguistics.
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:33 PM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>> Tolkien wrote books.
>>
>> He expected to make money selling them.
>>
>> He did make money selling them.
>>
>> His major income did indeed come from his professorship.
>>
>> You speak quite confidently as to Dr Tolkien's motivations.
>>
>> I wonder how intimately you knew him.
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>>> 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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