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.

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`05.2.04` Ainulindalë

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Text Types

Text Type	Segments	Tokens
`P`	30	3,672
unknown	39	1,822

‘unknown’ indicates segments that have not yet been assigned a text type.

Ainulindalë

A is extremely rough with changes made at time of composition
Readings from the Lost Tales version were written down then immediately struck out and replaced
No title page or title but later The Music of the Ainur was scribbled on the manuscript
B is a fair copy with a great many differences, mostly stylistic
Has a title page
Changes were made to B many years later during rewriting (see 10.1.01)

Versions

rough manuscript (ink?) A
fair copy (ink?) B (given as P11)