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“A Honeycomb Gathered from Dif fer ent Flowers”: Tolkien- the- Compiler’s Middle- earth “Sources” in The Lord of the Rings Jeremy Painter n the Prologue to The Fellowship of the Ri, J ng.R.R. Tolkien states I that The Lord of the Rings is a reconstruction and compilation drawn from “collections” of “historical books a o nr d r dse ” l c ocated in three main Middle e - arth archives ( FR , Prologue, 23 –25). Although this note was added to the Prologue in 1965, more than a d cade e after The Fel - lowship of the Ring was published, the source structure seems to have been at least unconsciously p en rt d es uring the novel’s construction, and Tolkien’s retrospective note merely realizes and codie fi s what was there all along. Few critics seem to have taken seriously Tolkie-n’s invita tion to read his work as a reconstruction, but, as thi w s p ila l d pee r mon - strate, a reading of The Lord of the Rings as a text consisting of discourses drawn from three identifiable archives sheds new light on the work as a whole. Once the reader
Tolkien Studies – West Virginia University Press
Published: Dec 14, 2016
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