In which Dr. Corey Olsen continues his next Mythgard Academy course on The Lost Road, with Part 2, Chapters 1-3 of the fifth volume of The History of Middle-earth by JRR Tolkien.
In week 4 we can see how Tolkien's stories help to root our modern world in his legendarium. King Sheave is a marvelous illustration of the fundamental penchant of Tolkien's mind, in which his scholarly studies and his stories influenced each other. He never just does scholarship or story. He always does both. Turning back to The Silmarillion, Professor Olsen recapped the development of the legendarium from The Book of Lost Tales onward. At this time The Silmarillion consists of often severely abbreviated annals of events narrated elsewhere at length, but these epitomes provide an 'objective' framework for the great tales.
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