Leonardo’s Reviews > The Book of Lost Tales 2 > Status Update

“Thus it is that through Eriol and his sons the Engle (i.e. the English) have the true tradition of the faeries, of who the Íras and the Wéalas (the Irish and the Welsh) tell garbled things.”

I take it back. The greatest tragedy of all is Tolkien never putting down any version of a full prose narrative of Eärendel’s story.

I think it is a shame most of all that Tolkien never finished a proper rewrite of the Fall of Gondolin narrative. I would have loved to see how he’d have handled the description of the Eldar houses arrayed for war when Morgoth’s forces arrived.

Turin’s story is tragic no matter which version. I do wish Tolkien had left enough of his role in smacking Melko with his black sword at the end of days to make it into the Silmarillion though.

I know making the eye of Sauron a cat eye in the movies probably wasn’t a reference to Tevildo lord of cats, but I will now choose to associate the two.

TIME TO BRING BACK THE THEW COUNTER FROM THE CONAN STORIES! Beren is stacked.