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The War of the Jewels de Christopher Tolkien
de Christopher Tolkien - Género: English
Sinopsis
In volumes ten and eleven of The History of Middle-earth, Christopher Tolkien recounts from the original texts the evolution of his father's work on The Silmarillion, the legendary history of the Elder Days or First Age, from the completion of the Lord of the Rings in 1949 until J.R.R. Tolkien's death. In volume ten, Morgoth's Ring, the narrative was taken only as far as the natural dividing point in the work, when Morgoth destroyed the Trees of Light and fled from Valinor bearing the stolen Silmarils. In The War of the Jewels, the story returns to Middle-earth and the ruinous conflict of the High Elves and the Men who were their allies with the power of the Dark Lord. With the publication in this book of all of J.R.R. Tolkien's later narrative writing concerned with the last centuries of the First Age, the long history of The Silmarillion, from its beginnings in The Book of Lost Tales, is completed; the enigmatic state of the work at his death can now be understood. A chief...
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This was the least interesting of the HoME so far. Other than a fairly elaborate story/synopsis of Húrin's wanderings after his torment and release by Morgoth, there's nothing here of note. The story of Húrin's coming to Brethil was as messed up and foreboding as you'd expect from The Silm, and it's a shame it was never fully finished and so wasn't used in the published Silm. I understand Christopher's reasonings for not including it, as there were just too many missing pieces for how to fit it into the larger story.
There's yet another annal which is delivered in one long block, and as with the other annals, they're really only of interest if you want to know what year the various events took place (roughly, of course, as the years keep changing with each revision). I was able to read these in previous volume when they were broken up into more manageable blocks, but this was 100+ pages straight, followed by 70-ish pages of notes and commentary, and I just couldn't muster the interest this time around. There's also a very elaborate section on Quendi and the Eldar at the end, which is really only of interest to those actually wanting to learn the language.
Pepper in various lists about the minute changes in to the later Quenta Silmarillion (of which none of those stories came anywhere near completion before Tolkien's death) and commentary about various technical details, and this thing was a slog. I admit, I skipped/skimmed a lot of this. It was interesting to see which of Tolkien's later changes were not incorporated in the published Silm, due largely to the stories never being finished and/or being so at odds with what was written before, but that's about it and certainly wasn't worth the 400 pages it took to convey that information.
Still, boring as most of this was, I can't help but admire Christopher's dedication to bringing all this together and organizing what must be an entire warehouse worth of notes, letters, scribblings on loose pieces of papers and whatnot, and actually making it largely comprehensible. How I imagine it must have felt for him:
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