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"to publish the version he probably wishes went in the Silmarillion proper."
No, he doesn't. He has always wished to publish it as a standalone book; but the Sil. proper was always viewed (by JRRT and CT both) as a compendium, a rather compressed history, and this is precisely what JRRT produced when he wrote a deliberately abridged version of the later Narn into the Grey Annals.
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