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[bookish_dragon]

Lays of Beleriand is an interesting read. I am a sucker for poetry, I am. And since Mel is not, that means there's more for me. *grins.* I find the background-information Christopher provides very interesting as well. Like watching a work in progress.

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[mellinore.livejournal.com]

Glad you like it. :)

It's an interesting slice of the history of ME; the only real description of Nargothrond JRRT ever wrote is in the Lay of the Children of Hurin. One of the things he did once, and never again (the fall of Gondolin was another).

I do have that, if you want to read it sometime when you're here.

[yattara.livejournal.com]

Please? *big puppy-dog eyes.*

[yattara.livejournal.com]

What book is it in, by the way?

[mellinore.livejournal.com]

The Fall of Gondolin in the Book of Lost Tales (vol 2).

It may well be the oldest surviving piece of writing he did about Middle-Earth - it was read to students at Oxford in 1920.

[yattara.livejournal.com]

Neat.

Wasn't Nargothrond in Unfinished Tales?

[mellinore.livejournal.com]

There is the long prose version of the Narn in UT, yes. But its quite possible that the descriptions of Nargothrond for that version were never written - they were in the "gaps" in the story.