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The essay as it stands in The Lost Road can be thus seen as an interpolated manuscript, badly translated by Men in the Fourth Age or even later .... No autograph manuscripts of the Lhammas of Pengolodh were left; the three manuscripts we possess come from the original manuscript through an unknown number of intermediate copies. Only the final chapter of the work of Pengolodh, called Ósanwe-kenta, comes from a much better manuscript and is much less interpolated. It was written as a typescript of eight pages, probably in 1960 ....
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The two bolded sentences give conflicting context for the passage between: one internal to the subcreation, one external. Are "the three manuscripts we possess" real or fictional? —Tamfang (talk) 22:39, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
