• Book of the Lost Narrator: Rereading the 1977 Silmarillion as a Unified Text

    Author(s):
    Dennis Wise (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    Tolkien Studies
    Subject(s):
    Historiography
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, narrator, Tolkien
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/0jfy-yd80
    Abstract:
    This article that J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Silmarillion (1977) should be read as a unified text with a single narrator, despite what we know of Christopher Tolkien's editorial work and his father's method of composition. A unified text not only smooths out many of the *Silmarillion's* "flaws" but also promotes the major themes we know Tolkien to have been interested in.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1353/tks.2016.0008
    Publisher:
    Project Muse
    Pub. Date:
    2016-12-18
    Journal:
    Tolkien Studies
    Volume:
    13
    Issue:
    1
    Page Range:
    101 - 124
    ISSN:
    1547-3163
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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