The Book Of Lost Tales: Part I

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Author：J. R. R. Tolkien
Update：08-15-2023
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Chapter 7 of his book The Road to Middle-earth Professor T. A. Shippey accepts that this is so ("The Silmarillion could never be anything but hard to read", p. 201), and expounds his view of why it should be. A complex discussion is not treated justly when it is extracted, but in his view the reasons are essentially two (p. 185). In the first place, there is in The Silmarillion no "mediation" of the kind provided by the hobbits (so, in The Hobbit, "Bilbo acts as the link between modern times and the archaic world of dwarves and dragons"). My father was himself well aware that the absence of hobbits would be felt as a lack, were "The Silmarillion" to be published-and not only by readers with a particular liking for them. In a letter written in 1956 (The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, p. 238), soon after the publication of The Lord of the Rings, he said: I do not think it would have the appeal of the L.R.-no hobbits! Full of mythology, and elvishness, and all that "heigh stile" (as Chaucer might say), which has been so little to the taste of many reviewers.
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter XI of The Silmarillion (const.i.tuted from two later versions not greatly dissimilar the one from the other) is extremely brief. Despite many differences the later versions read in places almost as summaries of the early story, but it is often hard to say whether the shortening depends rather on my father"s feeling (certainly present, see p. 174) that the description was too long, was taking too large a place in the total structure, or an actual rejection of some of the ideas it contains, and a desire to diminish the extreme "concreteness" of its images. Certainly there is here a revelling in materials of "magic" property, gold, silver, crystal, gla.s.s, and above all light conceived as a liquid element, or as dew, as honey, an element that can be bathed in and gathered into vessels, that has quite largely disappeared from The Silmarillion (although, of course, the idea of light as liquid, dripping down, poured and h.o.a.rded, sucked up by Ungoliant, remained essential to the conception of the Trees, this idea becomes in the later writing less palpable and the divine operations are given less "physical" explanation and justification).
Chapter 17
Chapter XI of The Silmarillion: And in that time, which songs call Nurtal Valinoreva, the Hiding of Valinor, the Enchanted Isles were set, and all the seas about them were filled with shadows and bewilderment. And these isles were strung as a net in the Shadowy Seas from the north to the south, before Tol Eressa, the Lonely Isle, is reached by one sailing west. Hardly might any vessel pa.s.s between them, for in the dangerous sounds the waves sighed for ever upon dark rocks shrouded in mist. And in the twilight a great weariness came upon mariners and a loathing of the sea; but all that ever set foot upon the islands were there entrapped, and slept until the Change of the World.
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23