Khamûl wrote:

Haven't listened to the interview (read this elsewhere), but is Sibley saying that the genesis of this volume was before Amazon's RoP series i.e. countering the obvious inference that HC concocted this release in response to the TV show?

ibid wrote:

The convention being used is that the first time each source gets used in the notes the abbreviation is given alongside the full name and then subsequent uses only use the abbreviation.

Introduction note 1 - Letters
Introduction note 4 - Peoples
Year 1 note 1 - Appendix B
Year 1 note 3 - Rings
Year 1 note 7 - Akallabêth

and so on

For this episode, we were honored to welcome a very influential figure in the Tolkien fandom: Brian Sibley!

Brian is the recipient of the Tolkien Society’s award for Outstanding Contribution in 2022. He is an honorary member of the society, and is perhaps best known to the Tolkien community because of the radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings he created for the BBC. His newest project The Fall of Númenor is a book that pulls together Tolkien’s writings about the island civilization and promises to be an insightful and essential text! We hope you enjoy the interview!

Dale Nelson wrote:

I've begun to post comments on the book at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Chronicles Forums. I've just begun reading...


The Fall of Númenor is an arrangement of already published material by Tolkien that relates to the Second Age, so the primary value of the book will be the convenience of having these texts brought together in one place, from The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth. I'm a bit surprised by inadequate proofreading, which is not a problem one encountered with the books edited by Christopher Tolkien. For example, we have "council" when "counsel" is meant, "if" for "of," and "his" for "him" in the first 50 pages. Comma usage is erratic in the early editorial pages.

Dale Nelson wrote:

Given that "Celebrimbor and his fellow-smiths... formed a society or brotherhood... the Gwaith-i-Mirdain," I was puzzled by the inclusion in Lee's picture of the Elf-smiths of a couple of Elf-women (picture is reproduced in an earlier posting on this thread).