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Findegil · 02-20-2006, 01:02 PM

Well the real topic is an easy one if you bother to look at the right source. The Ballentime bocks are much older editions which are only ever and anone reprinted, while the HoughtonMifflin is a newer edition. BB's seems to be the text of the 1966 edition while HM's is a later one. The BB'66 seems to be a kind intermediate reading which had some revisions of Tolkien himself mixed up with older readings. Thus you get the impression that you are first told they did camp earlier and than that they camp that night for the first time (which was even more explicit in the editions up to 1966).

All this can be found in detail in: "The Annotated Hobbit" Annotated by Douglas A. Anderson.

Respectfully
Findegil

02-20-2006, 01:02 PM	#8
Findegil King's Writer Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,721	Well the real topic is an easy one if you bother to look at the right source. The Ballentime bocks are much older editions which are only ever and anone reprinted, while the HoughtonMifflin is a newer edition. BB's seems to be the text of the 1966 edition while HM's is a later one. The BB'66 seems to be a kind intermediate reading which had some revisions of Tolkien himself mixed up with older readings. Thus you get the impression that you are first told they did camp earlier and than that they camp that night for the first time (which was even more explicit in the editions up to 1966). All this can be found in detail in: "The Annotated Hobbit" Annotated by Douglas A. Anderson. Respectfully Findegil