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| Description | Detail of folio 93 from Tolkien's The Etymologies, showing its state as a handwritten manuscript, much edited with crossings-out, corrections, and marginal notes, often untidily written, and making its transcription extremely challenging. Not struck out is the entry "√mor- *mori black", just legible mid-page. |
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J. R. R. Tolkien |
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https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Etymologies |
| Date of publication | 1930s |
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The Etymologies (Tolkien) |
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The image is used to illustrate the statement by the scholars who have transcribed the text of The Etymologies (Christopher Tolkien, Helge Fauskanger, Carl Hostetter, and Arden Smith, all cited in the article) that the document was extraordinarily complex and tricky to transcribe, with its often scrawled handwriting, crossings-out, overwriting, and sometimes extremely faint text, which caused many errors in the version that was eventually printed. This can perhaps be imagined weakly with a textual description, but "seeing is believing", and this small sample gives a sharp visual impression of what the document is actually like. It may serve, too, to identify the document visually, as it has no printed cover page. |
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No amount of text can convey the look of a complex manuscript with its handwriting and use of space, just how heavily it has been edited and re-edited, or the 2-dimensional arrangement of blocks of text, notes, and corrections on the page. |
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