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Autodescription — The Children of Húrin (Q331651)
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[edit]Christopher Tolkien (Q82032) was listed as author (P50) of this item, and I added the qualifier P794 (P794) editor (Q1607826) to set him apart from his father, who is of course the main author. Afterwards I realized that that doesn’t make much sense, and that simply removing him as author (P50) and adding him as editor (P98) instead would make more sense. On the other hand, I have no idea how much he contributed to the book, how much he had to do to bring it into a coherent, publishable form, and perhaps these efforts might justify listing him under the authors of the book. What do you think? --DSGalaktos (talk) 22:36, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
- According to his own claims, he contributed no substantial own writing to the main text, only editorial arrangement. The other parts of the book written by him are introductions and commentary, which fits the role of the editor as well. — Linus (disc) 11:07, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
- Okay, I’ve now looked through the Appendix 2, and found this:
In the result, while I have had to introduce bridging passages here and there in the piecing together of different drafts, there is no element of extraneous ‘invention’ of any kind, however slight, in the longer text here presented. The text is nonetheless artificial, as it could not be otherwise: the more especially since this great body of manuscript represents a continual evolution in the actual story. […]
In the remainder of the story […], to which my father gave a finished form, there are naturally very few differences from the text in Unfinished Tales. But there are two matters of detail in the account of […] where I have emended the original words and which should be explained […] emend ‘behind them’ to ‘before them’ [for geographical reasons] […] [and] I have emended […] ‘since they were not standing right in Glaurung’s path’ to ‘since they were not right in Glaurung’s path’, and ‘clambered along the water-edge’ to ‘clambered along the cliff’.
These are small matters in themselves, but they clarify […].
—Christopher Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Appendix (2). In the 2008 HarperCollins edition: pages 289, 290, 292.
- I agree, that sounds a lot more like “editor” than “author”. --DSGalaktos (talk) 17:47, 31 March 2014 (UTC)