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'''The Early History of the Legend''' is the first chapter of the first section, 'Part One: The Fall of Númenor and the Lost Road', of ''[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]''.
'''The Early History of the Legend''' is the first chapter of the first section, 'Part One: The Fall of Númenor and the Lost Road', of ''[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]''.
==History of composition==
'One day', [[Tolkien]] and [[C.S. Lewis]], unsatisfied with the stories they read, decided to write some by themselves. After choosing two literary thematics, they tossed up to see what would do each one.<ref>{{LR|P1I}}</ref>{{rp|7}}
{{blockquote|We agreed that he should try 'space travel', and I should try 'time-travel'. [[Space Trilogy|His result]] is well known. My effort, after a few promising chapters, ran dry: it was too long a way round to what I really wanted to make, a new version of the [[Atlantis]] legend. The final scene survives as ''[[Akallabêth|The Downfall of Númenor]]''.|[[Letter 294]]}}
It is unknown the exact date of this conversation, although we know that Lewis finished by the autumn of [[1937]] and Tolkien submitted ''[[The Lost Road]]'' (unfinished) to [[Allen & Unwin]] on [[15 November]] of the same year.<ref>{{LB|Note}}, p. 364</ref>
{{References}}

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The Lost Road and Other Writings chapters
Part One
  1. The Early History of the Legend
  2. The Fall of Númenor
  3. The Lost Road
Part Two
  1. The Texts and Their Relations
  2. The Later Annals of Valinor
  3. The Later Annals of Beleriand
  4. Ainulindalë
  5. The Lhammas
  6. Quenta Silmarillion
Part Three
The Etymologies

The Early History of the Legend is the first chapter of the first section, 'Part One: The Fall of Númenor and the Lost Road', of The Lost Road and Other Writings.

History of composition

'One day', Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, unsatisfied with the stories they read, decided to write some by themselves. After choosing two literary thematics, they tossed up to see what would do each one.[1]:7

We agreed that he should try 'space travel', and I should try 'time-travel'. His result is well known. My effort, after a few promising chapters, ran dry: it was too long a way round to what I really wanted to make, a new version of the Atlantis legend. The final scene survives as The Downfall of Númenor.
—Letter 294

It is unknown the exact date of this conversation, although we know that Lewis finished by the autumn of 1937 and Tolkien submitted The Lost Road (unfinished) to Allen & Unwin on 15 November of the same year.[2]

References

  1. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part One. The Fall of Númenor and The Lost Road: I. The Early History of the Legend"
  2. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lays of Beleriand, "Note on the original submission of the Lay of Leithian", p. 364
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