89: What Are the Unfinished Tales & Why Are They Important?
Lord of the Rings Lorecast
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5 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Before we jump into the first story in the Unfinished Tales, Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin, it's important that we understand what exactly these versions of the stories are, and why we're revisiting a story we read in the Silmarillion.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast, the show that explores the background of Tolkien's amazing you to the unfinished tales. |
| 0:32.0 | This is the next book that we will be exploring. |
| 0:37.1 | And I'm excited to get into this because it is a very different kind of thing from |
| 0:42.9 | the Silmarillion. |
| 0:45.1 | And so we're going to take this episode to talk about what exactly the unfinished tales are |
| 0:50.9 | and the first story in the book of Tour and his coming to Gondolin. |
| 0:58.2 | And just by reading the name of the first story, you probably already have questions. |
| 1:04.2 | If you haven't come across this book before, if you haven't read it yourself, didn't we talk |
| 1:09.7 | about Tour? |
| 1:10.9 | Wasn't that in the Silmarillion? |
| 1:13.5 | We had this whole section about him. |
| 1:15.5 | We had this whole section about Gondolin. |
| 1:17.5 | And then, of course, the, you know, final days of the city, all of that stuff. |
| 1:23.0 | We already did this, right? |
| 1:25.6 | Well, yes. |
| 1:27.1 | And no. |
| 1:29.0 | And that's the answer for many of these other books that you get about Tolkien's works. |
| 1:35.5 | Because when Christopher Tolkien was piecing together, the Silmarillion, |
| 1:42.0 | he had to pull from a vast trove of versions and variations on these stories because |
| 1:51.1 | of the way that J.R.R. Tolkien would write. |
| 1:55.6 | And many of these stories go very, very far back to a very early period of time. |
| 2:02.7 | And tour is the, I guess, penultimate example of that. |
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