[Note: I have the current list of errata up at the Comments and Errata page at http://www.arda-reconstructed.com. Please consult that page before listing any additional errata.]

Here's one: on p. 219, in the last sentence of the second paragraph, there is a missing "the": "he is referring, of course to [the] text included ... ."

Two more from a friend:

On p. 13 it says The Unfinished Tales when of course it should be just Unfinished Tales.

On p. 216, it says "as renown a Tolkien scholar as Shippey", when it ought to be "renowned".

He also mentioned that the abbreviation of LOTR is inconsistent with the other abbreviations such as HoMe, WotJ and PoMe in which the initials for prepositions, and articles and such remain lower-case, as they should. I'll fix that in the second edition.

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

A more substantive bit of errata that I am reminded of in my discussion with solicitr. On pp. 35-36 and 253, talking about the "context" of the Akallabêth, I neglect to mention that in "The Line of Elros" Tolkien states that that work was written by Elendil (UT, pp. 224, 227 n. 16).

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

I found what appear to be two very minor errors with both of them being words which were omitted.

On page 25 in the last sentence of the first full paragraph I think the word "be" should be between "to" and "negligible".

And on page 112 isn't the word "the" omitted between "before" and "Noldor" in the first sentence of the second paragraph?

I noticed the same minor error on page 25, too.

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Typos (or S&R errors) in Table 24:

The word "Silmarillion" is half italicized and half in plain text

The word "some" is rendered "SoMe", ie the std abb for HME IV The Shaping of Middle-earth.

Thanks, guys. soli, that error is in the word "Silmaril" not "Silmarillion" isn't it?

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

Yup. Erratum in my post.

The irony, the irony... .

(Sorry, I'll quit making inconsequential posts in here now.)

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Voronwë, I have noticed something else which may be a typo (or else I am misunderstanding the intent of the footnote in question). There is a footnote at the end of the second paragraph on page 193 after the sentence "Moreover, as we will see in a couple of chapters, Christopher greatly compressed the third of the Great Tales - the tale of the fall of Gondolin."

Then, when you go to the actual footnote on page 267, it says "See discussion of Tolkien's chapter 24." However, chapter 24 of the The Silmarillion is the chapter about Eärendil and the War of Wrath. Should this footnote be referring to Chapter 23 - the one about Tuor and the fall of Gondolin?

Yes, that's an error (and an unfortunate one, at that).

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

I have the current list of errata up at the Comments and Errata page at http://www.arda-reconstructed.com. Please consult that page before listing any additional errata.

(55 items so far, three of which are substantial errors, including the footnote issue Húrin pointed out, and the Akallabêth issue that I mentioned.)

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

Voronwë, maybe you could make that Web address into a link?

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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

Ok.

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

I'm Andreth's mother.

The running title in your "Conclusions" chapter is misspelled on each page.

But I do like what I saw on a quick skim. What an enormous amount of work you did!

Sure enough. Well, that is one that I can't take the blame for (other than not catching it), since I never created the running titles.

I'll be very interested to see your more substantive thoughts, once you have had an opportunity to read it more carefully.

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

I just noticed a very strange printing error, that I missed in the proofs.

On page 67, in Table 5, the first line of Table 4 is repeated before the actual first line of Table 5 (so that it appears that there are two paragraph 1s in Chapter 4).

Phooey!

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

Nancy Martsch from Beyond Bree writes regarding page 183, where I discuss the name "Dor Firn-i-Guinar" for the land of the dead that live, that that name must be taken from the Etymoligies, which includes the term "Dor firn i Guinar Land of the Dead that Live" under the entry for PHIR (Lost Road, pp. 381-2.)

She also wrote to point out the issue with "Calacirya" discussed earlier.

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

I thought I had found a sourcing error in Table 20 (the table for Chap. 20 "Of the Fifth Battle"), in paragraph 31, but when I took a closer look, I realized that I had it exactly right.

Good to see.

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'