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dust. I have been both off and on too unwell, and too

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burdened to do much about them, and too downhearted.
Watching paper-shortages and costs mounting against me.
But I have rather modified my views. Better something than
nothing! Although to me all are one, and the 'Lord of the
Rings' would be better far (and eased) as part of the whole, I
would gladly consider the publication of any part of this stuff.
Years are becoming precious...
Thus he bowed to necessity, but it was a grief to him.
This second break was destructive - in the sense, that The
Silmarillion would never now be finally achieved. In the years
that followed he was overwhelmed: the demands of his position
in the University, and the necessity of moving house, led him to
declare that the preparation of The Lord of the Rings for
publication, which should have been 'a labour of delight', had
been 'transformed into a nightmare'. Publication was followed
by a huge correspondence of discussion, explanation, and
analysis, of which the examples retrieved and published in the
volume of his letters provide abundant evidence. It seems not to
have been until the end of the 1950s that he turned again
seriously to the Silmarillion narrative (for which there was now
an insistent demand). But it was too late. As will be seen in the
latter part of this book, much had changed since (and, as I
incline to think, in direct relation to) the publication of The
Lord of the Rings and its immediate aftermath. Meditating long
on the world that he had brought into being and was now in
part unveiled, he had become absorbed in analytic speculation
concerning its underlying postulates. Before he could prepare a
new and final Silmarillion he must satisfy the requirements of a
coherent theological and metaphysical system, rendered now
more complex in its presentation by the supposition of obscure
and conflicting elements in its roots and its tradition.
Among the chief 'structural' conceptions of the mythology
that he pondered in those years were the myth of Light; the
nature of Aman; the immortality (and death) of the Elves; the
mode of their reincarnation; the Fall of Men and the length of
their early history; the origin of the Orcs; and above all, the
power and significance of Melkor-Morgoth, which was en-
larged to become the ground and source of the corruption of



Arda. For this reason I have chosen Morgoth's Ring as the title
of this book. It derives from a passage in my father's essay

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