tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post5784408881596593700..comments2024-03-28T14:05:25.134-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: More on the Oxford ExhibitJohn D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-86367056813777298602018-06-10T20:25:54.585-07:002018-06-10T20:25:54.585-07:00Love the last couple paragraphs. I recently acqui...Love the last couple paragraphs. I recently acquired the Companion by Scull & Hammond, I'm reading the Chronology from the beginning, and this comments mirrored a comment in the Preface about how busy he always was, that he had many duties we perhaps forget about when we bemoan unfinished works. <br /><br />Myself, I mostly 'regret' some of Christopher Tolkien's choices. My impression is that his father intended that he finish the Silmarillion works. that he hoped Christopher would turn Beren and Luthien, and Fall of Gondolin, into complete narratives like Children of Hurin, as a co-author. Rather then the schoalrly examinations of the various versions.<br /><br />That said, it was his father; Christopher undoubtedly knows all of this far better then I, and it is quite properly his choices to make. I'm grateful for all that he has done. Paul Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14620026998861471269noreply@blogger.com