Talk:Ainulindalë

Contradiction
The lead says that Tolkien started writing it in 1919, down in the article it says 1918. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 17:46, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Italics
The work may have ended up as a chapter in The Silmarillion as published by Christopher Tolkein, but as written by JRR Tolkein it was a separate manuscript. In a letter to Katherine Farrer concerning manuscripts he sent her for review he wrote "I have ventured to include besides the 'Silmarillion' or main chronicle, one or two other connected 'myths': 'The Music of the Ainur', ...". But whatever, I was merely making the title conform to the lead sentence which italicises it. SpinningSpark 10:58, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Hm, yes, but Tolkien wrote many hundreds of manuscripts; the nearest comparison would be books of short stories, where each one is a separate manuscript and could indeed be a published work, say in a newspaper or magazine, but we treat the stories as un-italicised parts of a book all the same. However, the italics do make sense for Quenya, as I already said in the edit comment, so I pointedly didn't revert you. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:15, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

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