Posted: November 30, 1999 at 00:34:45: by David Freitag
Aelfwine figures mostly in the Introductory material in the 2 volumes of _The Book of Lost Tales_, and amy crop up in passing in other of the earlier HoME volumes. Tolkien does not lay out any "chain of custody" and Aelfwine is at best a shadowy figure._Lost Tales_ is recommended for more detail on such incidents as the Fall of Gondolin and the Voyages of Earendil, but this is very early stuff, do not expect consistency with the puplished Silmarillion. I like the brief scenes in Numenor in fragmentary "The Lost Road." For speculations on various aspects of ME often debated here, look through _Morgoth's Ring_ and _The War of the Jewels_, while _Sauron Defeated_ has the dropped Afterword which gives a glimpse of the homelife of the Gamgees.
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