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Q&A Finding before/after examples where writing has been improved, to learn from

If you go through the twelve slush books which Christopher Tolkien assembled from his father's writings (collectively called The History of Middle-Earth), you can see practically line-for-line how ...

posted 12y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-13T11:59:55Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T01:11:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T01:11:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
If you go through the twelve slush books which Christopher Tolkien assembled from his father's writings (collectively called The History of Middle-Earth), you can see practically line-for-line how JRRTolkien created, edited, and shaped the LOTR trilogy.

There are multiple drafts, stories which hopscotch from version A to C and back to B ending up in version D which was typeset as E but then finished by his secretary as C-Prime plus F... At any rate, I can hardly think of a larger example of vivisected prose.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2012-12-18T01:22:11Z (almost 12 years ago)
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