10.1.01

Ainulindalë

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Text Types

Text Type Segments Tokens
N 384 7,488
O 3 146
P 88 9,527
Q 111 1,132
R 1 14
S 18 178
T 78 642
U 22 491

P-Text

10:P1 Ainulindalë C p8–22 6,356 tokens
10:P2a Ainulindalë D (a) p32–33 854 tokens
10:P2b Ainulindalë D (b) p34–35 284 tokens
10:P2c Ainulindalë D (c) p35 223 tokens
10:P2d Ainulindalë D (d) p36–37 753 tokens
10:P3a Ainulindalë C* (a) p40 314 tokens
10:P3b Ainulindalë C* (b) p41 44 tokens
10:P3c Ainulindalë C* (c) p41–42 385 tokens
10:P3d Ainulindalë C* (d) p42 112 tokens
10:P3e Ainulindalë C* (e) p42–43 204 tokens

Ainulindalë

  • 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

Versions

  • 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)

C* P3 B/ C P1 D P2