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Первоначальное сообщение от Каэлин Мэсод
Веским основанием является тот факт, что ни в одном из опубликованных писем ДжРР нет упоминания о Сильме.
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Письмо 19: "My chief joy comes from learning that the Silmarillion is not rejected with scorn. <...> But I shall certainly now hope one day to be able, or to be able to afford, to publish the Silmarillion!"
Письмо 25: "My tale is not consciously based on any other book — save one, and that is unpublished: the 'Silmarillion', a history of the Elves, to which frequent allusion is made."
Письмо 31: "...my mind on the 'story' side is really preoccupied with the 'pure' fairy stories or mythologies of the Silmarillion"
Письмо 98: "Of course, my only real desire is to publish 'The Silmarillion'"
Письмо 115: "I am distressed (for myself) to be unable to find the 'Rings of Power', which with the 'Fall of Numenor' is the link between the Silmarillion and the Hobbit world. But its essentials are included in Ch. II of The Lord of the Rings. That book would, of course, be easier to write, if the Silmarillion were published first!"
Письмо 124: "Ridiculous and tiresome as you may think me, I want to publish them both - The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings - in conjunction or in connexion."
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