Pellegrino skrev:
Jag röstade på Nirnaeth, tycker som Túrin att det är Tolkien när han är som bäst. Otroligt dramatiskt och mörkt, med en mängd tillfällen där ödet hängde på en tråd. Gåshudsframkallande.
Drog mig något till minnas apropå det där, Pelelgrino. Följande citat kommer från Wikipedia, så jag ska så klart inte framhärda att det är helt korrekt, men i allmänhet blir jag bara mer imponerad av Tolkiens förmåga att gå nattsvart.
Hade jag läst nedan version allra först hade jag nog aldrig orkat öppna kapitlet igen, haha. Att de godas fulla (nåja) makt inte skulle kunnat mäta sig, vilket större hjältedåd och vilken värre sorg...
Citera:
Later version of the Battle
The presented version of the story was drawn by Christopher Tolkien primarily from The Grey Annals, although the Quenta Silmarillion was used as well. But in the writing of the long Narn i Chîn Húrin, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a new version of the battle which postdates both aforementioned accounts.[12] Christopher Tolkien did not incorporate the major changes of the new version into The Silmarillion text, although he did take some phrasing and description from it.
The major difference is that Morgoth does much better against the Elves in this version than he did in the old one. The entire element of the "machinations of Uldor" delaying Maedhros' march is removed, and Morgoth sends a second force to meet Maedhros and prevent him from joining with the other Elven lords. This version lacks the nearly explicit statement that the Elves would have won had it not been for the treachery of Men.
Christopher Tolkien does not venture a guess on why Tolkien made these changes, but it may be that he felt the Elves did much better against Morgoth than they reasonably should have (especially given the extreme length and difficulty of the later War of Wrath). This is all speculation, however.