Posted: January 30, 2000 at 22:40:29: by Michael Martinez
: I wonder if Tolkien wanted to keep anything of this in his
: revised silmarillion, after the Maiar were changed from being
: the children of the Valar into simply less powerful Ainur...In THE PEOPLES OF MIDDLE-EARTH, Christopher Tolkien reveals that his father wanted to include a revised prophecy concerning Turin in THE SILMARILLION. Instead of returning as a god or Maia at the end of Time, he would return simply as a man at the end of the First Age and help defeat Morgoth in the War of Wrath before dying a second (and final) time.
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