Urulókë wrote:

I am spending time in this book recently, so I will update this post as I note things.

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (eBook)

• Letter 255: "He says: pam is norna cenned/fyrnstreama geflotan Fastitocalon, ‘to him is a name appointed, to the floater in the ancient tides, Fastitocalon’. => þam is noma

But can we really be certain that Pam isn’t Norna?? I mean, have you ever seen them in the same place?

Urulókë wrote:

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (eBook)

I noted some a while ago:

9
It would be kind if you would retum>return the rejected.

17
Still that in [no] way detracts from their public effect.

19
But the real fun about ores>orcs and dragons (to my mind) was before their time.

43
Much though moderm>modern conditions have changed feminine circumstances,
In those days chaps joined up, or were scormed>scorned publicly.

52
Have at the Ores>Orcs, with winged words, hildenasddran>hildenǣddran (war-adders), biting darts

54
endeth Fæder lar his suna.>endeth Fæder lár his suna.
Longaoð>Longað þonne þy lǽs þe him con léoþa worn,

60
but as far as I can see they will not concem>concern me further this term

61
wyrce se þe móte [domes laer>]dómes ǽr déaþe.

62
to Lewis and Williams on Wed. moming>morning.

71
Yes, I think the ores>orcs as real a creation as anything in ‘realistic’
But it does make some difference who are your captains and whether they are ore>orc-like per se!

90
Is nu fela folca þætte fyrngewntu>fyrngewritu healdan wille,

91
Bill Femy>Ferny
Aragom>Aragorn

96
What's the matter with him this moming>morning
a country who is not a member of its actual Govermment>Government.

110
Houghton Muffin>Mifflin

120
Fanner>Farmer Giles of Ham

124
As far as my nemory>memory

131
late corners>comers
The Men who appear are mainly those of the Three Houses of the Fathers of them>Men
In the North is the Kingdom of Amor>Arnor
wholly absent from The Hobhit>Hobbit.

185
though un-hirelike>un-Shirelike, I fear, in reality.

205
Not that I think that this sensation is really one of the hwelpes of pe>þe liun at all:

209
ỏδντ>ỏδοντ
λóγος>λόγος [Latin o>Greek omicron]