sindarin_grammar1-1  Exercise 1: The Evidence
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From most to least reliable:
  1. Published texts (The Lord of the Rings and its appendices)
  2. Edited notes (from Tolkien's papers, in the journals)
  3. Scholars' reconstructions (grammars written from the evidence)
  4. Fan extensions (new words and phrases)

What to do before trusting a form:
  3. Reconstructions: check which scholar proposes it and whether others
     disagree; look for the attested example it rests on.
  4. Fan extensions: check whether Tolkien wrote the word at all; if not,
     treat it as an addition, not Tolkien's Sindarin.