A tempting hypothesis. I'd have expected Tolkien's edition of the Red Book to have at least a footnote about that, though.
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Originally Posted by mithalwen
I am not technologically aware enough to know but when did they start to move from physically typesetting books and doing it on computers.
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Apparently around 1962. By 1978 they were on the second generation of phototypesetting machines. This probably was a computer error, but I still checked every reference book I have looking for an alternative or dialect spelling of 'necklace'.