• Phrodo_00@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What? No. First was the story of Arda in a prototype version of the Silmarillon and Unfinished Tales.

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      1 year ago

      Huh, interesting, I didn’t realize Tolkien had started writing portions of the Silmarillion in 1914. I had to do some looking based on your response and learned something.

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        I’d need to look up the dates, but he might’ve started creating the languages even earlier than that