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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That was the challenge Christopher noted in the forward to the Silmarillion. J.R.R. had started working it in 1917, and kept making changes right up until his death in 1973.

So he had 56 years worth of papers, and notes, lots of it hand written, to try to kind of reconcile into a single work.

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