ChrisLoves
New Member
Hi Corey et al,
Long time, first time here. Hoping to get clarity on something in relation to the authorship of the Red Book and its subsequent amendments and additions.
I often hear and read Findegil credited with amendments and additions (e.g. "so it was that Frodo saw her...") to the text originally written by the assorted hobbits. I cannot square this with the passage where Findegil's appended note is reported, as follows:
"It [the most important copy of the Red Book] is an exact copy in all details of the Thain's Book in Minas Tirith." [italics mine]
If Findegil's work is an exact copy in all details of another book, then surely his hand can't be credited with any additions?
Following that thread, the Thain's Book "was a copy, made at the request of King Elessar, of the Red Book of the Periannath ...In Minas Tirith it [the Thain's Book] received much annotation, and many corrections..."
So it seems to me that additions of the type attributed to Findegil should properly to be credited to the unnamed scribes in Minas Tirith (or possibly Barahir, who is credited with The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen?) who annotated and corrected the Red Book to create the Thain's Book?
Am I missing, or misinterpreting something, or is Findegil getting a bit of unearned credit?
Long time, first time here. Hoping to get clarity on something in relation to the authorship of the Red Book and its subsequent amendments and additions.
I often hear and read Findegil credited with amendments and additions (e.g. "so it was that Frodo saw her...") to the text originally written by the assorted hobbits. I cannot square this with the passage where Findegil's appended note is reported, as follows:
"It [the most important copy of the Red Book] is an exact copy in all details of the Thain's Book in Minas Tirith." [italics mine]
If Findegil's work is an exact copy in all details of another book, then surely his hand can't be credited with any additions?
Following that thread, the Thain's Book "was a copy, made at the request of King Elessar, of the Red Book of the Periannath ...In Minas Tirith it [the Thain's Book] received much annotation, and many corrections..."
So it seems to me that additions of the type attributed to Findegil should properly to be credited to the unnamed scribes in Minas Tirith (or possibly Barahir, who is credited with The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen?) who annotated and corrected the Red Book to create the Thain's Book?
Am I missing, or misinterpreting something, or is Findegil getting a bit of unearned credit?