`10.1.01` Ainulindalë

Text Types

Text Type	Segments	Tokens
`P`	66	9,580
unknown	234	9,748

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

Major revisions made to B (including a lot of new material written on the blank verso pages) form a new text Christopher calls C
Typescript with ‘Round World Version’ based on B is called C* by Christopher
Many cases the C reading is pencilled on the C* typescript
Christopher concludes C* precedes C
There is also a single torn sheet that Christopher believes was the basis for C*
Certain radical elements of C* were removed for C
There is an illuminated manuscript D subsequently emended in multiple layers

Christopher proposes the following timeline:

1930

B manuscript written

1946

New version started, extant only in a single torn sheet

C* typescript based on this

1948

B and C* lent to Katherine Farrer after marking them the ‘Flat World Version’ and ‘Round World Version’ respectively.

Possibly because of Farrer’s preference for the ‘Flat Earth versions’, Tolkien modifies B to create C

single torn sheet
typescript called C* (given partially as P3a P3b P3c P3d P3e)
major revisions to B called C (given as P1)
illuminated manuscript called D with subsequent revisions (given partially as P2a P2b P2c P2d)