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{{book
| title=''Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion''
| image=[[File:Arda Reconstructed.jpg|225px]]
| author=Douglas Charles Kane
| publisher=Lehigh University Press
| date=[[15 March]] [[2009]]
| format=Hardback
| pages=270
| isbn=1611460565
}}
'''''Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion''''' is a [[2009]] of editorial analysis.

==From the published==
"''In ''Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion'', Douglas C. Kane reveals a tapestry woven by Christopher Tolkien from different portions of his father’s work that is often quite mind-boggling, with inserts that seemed initially to have been editorial inventions shown to have come from some remote portion of Tolkien’s vast body of work. He demonstrates how material that was written over the course of more than thirty years was merged together to create a single, coherent text. He also makes a frank appraisal of the material omitted by Christopher Tolkien (and in a couple of egregious cases the material invented by him) and how these omissions and insertions may have distorted his father’s vision of what he considered—even more then ''The Lord of the Rings''—to be his most important work. It is a fascinating portrait of a unique collaboration that reached beyond the grave.''

''In ''The History of Middle-earth'', Christopher Tolkien documents in amazing detail the development of the work of his father that would become the ''Silmarillion''. However, save for an occasional hint here and there, he fails to show the final step: his actual creation (several years after his father’s death) of the published work, with the assistance of Guy Kay. As he points out in the foreword to ''The War of the Jewels'' (the second of the two volumes of ''The History of Middle-earth'' that covers the “later Silmarillion”), the source materials that he used in that task largely have been made available “and with them a criticism of the ‘constructed’ Silmarillion becomes possible. I shall not enter into that question. . .” (p. x).''

''The purpose of ''Arda Reconstructed'' is to “enter in that question.” Kane documents the changes, omissions, and additions that were made to Tolkien’s work by Christopher Tolkien (with the assistance of Guy Kay) in preparing the ''Silmarillion'' for publication, and traces how the disparate source materials were used to create what is in essence a composite work. He compares the published text with the source texts contained in the volumes of ''The History of Middle-earth'' (as well as other works such as ''Unfinished Tales of Middle-earth and Númenor'', ''The Children of Húrin'', and—in one case—Tolkien’s letters) and identifies patterns of major and minor changes made to these source materials that result in the reconstruction of the finished text. He also cites the works of some of the most important Tolkien scholars, including Tom Shippey, Verlyn Flieger, Christina Scull, Wayne Hammond, Charles Noad, and David Bratman, in an attempt to understand and explain why these changes may have been made.

Supplementing the text of ''Arda Reconstructed'' are 25 detailed tables. The first table provides the dates that each of the source texts that were used in the creation of the published ''Silmarillion'' were written. The last table provides the different versions of names of people, places and things that were used in the source texts. In between, the other 23 tables trace paragraph by paragraph the source material used to create the published texts, showing both the primary source for each paragraph, and the secondary sources used to merge material into the primary sources for each paragraph. These tables provide a key resource for anyone interested in tracing in detail how the published ''Silmarillion'' was created.''"

==External links==
* '''[http://www.arda-reconstructed.com/ Official website]'''

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