Halbarad wrote:
Anyone know who I can keep track of updates to the book? Is there a website that tracks impressions somewhere? I noticed places like Blackwells and even HC's own site doesn't list impression information.
This website/community does here, as best we can. We all learned a long time ago, the publisher wasn't going to do it for us.
Mr. Underhill wrote:
This website/community does here, as best we can. We all learned a long time ago, the publisher wasn't going to do it for us.
Cool.
After looking online I found another interesting error. Brian Sibley also references Bilbo and Frodo as being "uncle and nephew" in the introduction when they are in fact cousins. It would be interesting if someone could ask Brian about these things, and whether he's already begun working with HC to get them corrected in future impressions.
Alan and KnewBetta roll out the red carpet — and put away the Hawaiian shirts — for Brian Sibley’s return to the Common Room! A prolific and talented writer, Brian is the force behind some of the most beloved adaptations of Tolkien’s work, including the BBC radio adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and Tales from the Perilous Realm, but we’re here to talk with him today about his Tolkien Society-award winning book, The Fall of Númenor. Bronze dragons, dancing bears, book destruction, and Pauline Baynes’ owls all make an appearance, along with Alan’s alleged sartorial brilliance.
https://theprancingponypodcast.com/202 ... erview-with-brian-sibley/
Halbarad wrote:
Mr. Underhill wrote:
This website/community does here, as best we can. We all learned a long time ago, the publisher wasn't going to do it for us.
Cool.
After looking online I found another interesting error. Brian Sibley also references Bilbo and Frodo as being "uncle and nephew" in the introduction when they are in fact cousins. It would be interesting if someone could ask Brian about these things, and whether he's already begun working with HC to get them corrected in future impressions.
Is this actually an error (i.e. does Sibley say they are in fact that or is he just referring to the nature of the relationship between the two)? In Lord of the Rings, Tolkien refers to Frodo as Bilbo's nephew at least twice, only once is nephew in quotes, and also refers to Bilbo as Frodo's uncle. Although they were cousins in fact, they had an uncle-nephew relationship in practice and to have referred to each other that way. For example my kids call my wife's cousins "aunt" and "uncle" even though they are technically first cousins once removed. Without further context, it doesn't seem to be an error to refer to the relationship that way, especially since Tolkien did so himself in the text of LOTR.
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