It's one of the reasons I truly applaude the whole of the History of Middle-earth. Those volumes document the progress of creation in a way it has not been done before (or at least, not to that degree), and likely will not be done again. And it doesn't even touch all his scholarship and "other stories" that went on in tandem with the Middle-earth work. The existence of the History would lead would-be scholars to become a bit more aware of the scope of his production ... or at least it should.
But of course, there will always be those who never look beyond their noses.
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Date: 2011-03-22 04:45 pm (UTC)But yes, there does seem to be this progression.
It's one of the reasons I truly applaude the whole of the History of Middle-earth. Those volumes document the progress of creation in a way it has not been done before (or at least, not to that degree), and likely will not be done again. And it doesn't even touch all his scholarship and "other stories" that went on in tandem with the Middle-earth work. The existence of the History would lead would-be scholars to become a bit more aware of the scope of his production ... or at least it should.
But of course, there will always be those who never look beyond their noses.