By the way, there's also a couple of different editions of the hobbit. The main difference is the Riddles in the Dark chapter, which was almost totally re-written. In the original, which I haven't read, only read about, Gollum actually gave the Ring to Bilbo after he won the Riddle contest, but Tolkien decided, once he started on writing LotR that Gollum wouldn't have done that, so he re-wrote the chapter to bring it in line with what he was doing in LotR.
Going back to the first ed of LotR, one of the things that I've come across is that in it, in the scene after Aragorn has looked in the Palantir, & Gimli asks him what he said to Sauron he snaps 'I told him i have a rascal dwarf which I'd happily swap for a couple of serviceable Orcs!' There's also a line from Gandalf on Caradras, where Legolas asks him why he doesn't start a fire & Gandalf snaps back 'I suppose I coud set you alight, you might burn well' - those lines (quoted from memory) were certainly in the original drafts of LotR, because Christopher Tolkien gives them in the volumes of HOME (6-9) which deal with the writing of LotR, but I can't vouch for whether they were in the published edition. I have seen the first edition of Lotr on sale for around £750 which would be, what, $1,200 or something, if you're really interested in reading it!
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