![]() Both edited by Christopher Tolkien, these are the major collections of Tolkien’s myth-making. Tolkien’s posthumously published works fall under a few different categories: The two major Middle-earth collections: The Silmarillion (1977) and Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth (1980). This led to the version of the story in which Bilbo finds and takes the Ring, rather than Gollum giving it to him, as he originally did. Tolkien was always extremely willing to make alterations to his previous ideas where it suited his story – he actually made changes to The Hobbit after publication, when he developed the idea that the ring Bilbo obtained from Gollum was the One Ring and would form the centrepiece of The Lord of the Rings. Because these were unfinished works edited and published by Christopher Tolkien rather than JRR himself, they often contain contradictions where Tolkien changed his mind about elements of story or character. ![]()
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