A funny thing happened on the way to the canon: Update on the New Silmarillion aka Translations from the Elvish

» lindil - Update on the New Silmarillion aka Translations from the Elvish

In response to message posted by Michael_Martinez:

Greetings Michael!

I thought I would give you a bit of an upddate on our Silm project if you haven't been by the Downs in a while.

The project is crawling along at the speed of pre-Global warming glaciers, but nonetheless, we have made some serious headway on the Fall of Gondolin and are realtively close to having a draft text [composed of UT's 'of Tuor and his coming', BoLT 2's 'FoG', HoME 4's 'Q', CJRT's Gondolin chapter from the Silmarillion, and a few other snippets] from which we can then attempt 'stylistic harmonization'.

Most importanatly though we have established about a dozen serious members who are actually willing to work!

The spirit is really quite a warm-hearted one with things settled democratically if no informal consensus can be reached.

We have also started on the Ainulindale, as we had a wave of newer members who were understandably daunted by the rather ferocious complexity of FoG.

Of course all are welcome to stop in our 'public forum' http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ult...

and comment in the general comments thread or more specifically on any topic. We do acept new members to the project also.

The FAQ at the top of the forum is reasonably helpful to most and gives something of an overview of the goals of the project.

We also managed to hash out our working principles, which was a real trial, as we had some deep-rooted differences to deal with regarding Rog, but anyone wanting the details can find them aplenty in the **principles of editing...** thread.

Great Articles MM, thanks !

oh and thanks for the E book too!

-- posted by lindil