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Gen. Grievous1138 wrote: Thindithron the Great wrote: Gen. Grievous1138 wrote: Recneps wrote: If Christopher Tolkien's decisions are final, then does that mean that all of Tolkien's later, conceptual lores are invalid, only what Christopher decided to publish in the Silmarillion?

He published all of those in some form too. :-P

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 01:47, May 4, 2017 (UTC) I think there's a difference here. His letters etc were actually written by Tolkien, but Christopher came up with the book names? That would make them not specifically 'canon' if such a thing can be said of a name of a book, but rather just the names of those books in editions that have them.

The names all stem from what Tolkien actually wrote. In fact, he wrote all of them - Christopher Tolkien just applied them to the books. They fit well enough. And they are, without dispute, canon.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 10:11, May 4, 2017 (UTC) As I said, 'canon' doesn't really refer to mere book titles. It is just a matter of correctness.

This isn't worth arguing about, so I'm stopping.