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![Screen shot of the HoMe Base page for The Grey Annals showing the list of P-texts in the chapter and their distribution of P-texts.
Text reads:
11.1.01
The Grey Annals
Text Types
Text Type Segments Tokens
P 488 39,169
unknown 547 36,086
‘unknown’ indicates segments that have not yet been assigned a text type.
P-Text
11:P1 The Grey Annals [1] p5–19 6,039 tokens
11:P2a Excursus on the languages of Beleriand (a) p20–22 903 tokens
11:P2b Excursus on the languages of Beleriand (b) p24–25 708 tokens
11:P2c Excursus on the languages of Beleriand (c) p26–27 473 tokens
11:P3a The Grey Annals [2] (a) p29–36 2,949 tokens
11:P3b The Grey Annals [2] (b) p36–47 4,402 tokens
11:P4 Isfin and Ëol p47–48 467 tokens
11:P5a The Grey Annals [3] (a) p48–57 3,189 tokens
11:P5b The Grey Annals [3] (b) p57–58 693 tokens
11:P5c The Grey Annals [3] (c) p58–61 960 tokens](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u6xcbj535kkksz5qsehakuiu/bafkreianpecbr2lwi3txutn5o4exqwre2vlzucttsr3w6yhh6jib6lwksq)
![“The textual situation is in fact of fearful complexity…to present the detail in a printed book [is not] possible”
The Return of the Shadow, p. 246
“to present the whole complex in this book is obviously impossible”
The Return of the Shadow, p. 274
We’re working on it Christopher!
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![Shortest Paragraph in The Silmarillion
“Who are you?” said Túrin.
J.R.R. Tolkien, Silmarillion
[S QS.21.055]
Little Delving #0021
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