Digital Tolkien Project

HoMeBase

This site is intended to be the hub of the Digital Tolkien Project’s work on The History of Middle-earth series edited by Christopher Tolkien. We are at an early stage of development, working on The Book of Lost Tales (‘transversely’) and the Music of the Ainur / Ainulindalë (‘longitudinally’), and our goal is to provide a foundation for education and scholarship with an initial focus on metadata, search, data models, bibliography, and citation systems.

We are ‘working with the garage door open’ which means much of what appears here is provisional and incomplete. We welcome feedback and suggestions as we continue to develop the site.

Please contact us if we can assist in your research in any way.

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`01.02` The Music of the Ainur

01.01
The Cottage of Lost Play

01.03
The Coming of the Valar and the Building of Valinor

Text Types

Text Type	Segments	Tokens
`N`	152	2,734
`P`	58	5,507
`Q`	34	340
`R`	4	28
`S`	1	63
`T`	20	347
`U`	2	20

Link between Cottage of Lost Play and Music of Ainur

In second notebook
Entitled “Link between Cottage of Lost Play and (Tale 2) Music of Ainur”
In ink in JRRT’s hand written over draft in pencil that was “wholly erased”

Versions

erased pencil under ink in notebook
ink in notebook (given as P2)

The Music of the Ainur

Originally loose sheets in pencil, much emended, placed in third notebook
Notebook contains fuller and much more finished text in ink
Christopher gives second version (closely based on first, differing mostly by additions)
Notable differences given in commentary

Versions

pencil on loose sheets
ink in notebook (given as P3)