Snake Featherston
Banned
Suppose that in the 1960s-1970s, after publication of The Lord of the Rings Tolkien ITTL actually publishes a trilogy in like fashion based on that era's version of The Silmarillion. What would have been the results of publishing the original and rather darker backstory to the LOTR universe? Would The War of the Jewels have been a more fantastic equivalent of A Song of Ice and Fire in terms of bringing Grimdark and wars of evil against evil to fantasy? How would fantasy have been impacted by the two rather different views of one fantasy universe that this would have meant?
For that matter would the Alkallabeth have been published as a novel in its own right or only posthumously ITTL?
For that matter would the Alkallabeth have been published as a novel in its own right or only posthumously ITTL?