Here is a list of minor changes I noted (Typos are recorded
in another thread).
Corrections to Tolkien's text:
#15 FN: Northern myth in _The Hobbit_ > Northern myth of _The Hobbit_
#112, 115, 148, 157, 173, 196: Katherine > Katharine
#131: there are love-stories touched in > these are touched in love-stories
#145: I showed your draft to Geoffrey > I showed your draft notice to Geoffrey [The latter form is used in _Reader's Companion_ and _Companion and Guide_.]
#152: 22 September 1954 > 23 September 1954
#165: while in the Humber Garrison in 1918 > 1917 [Related to the dating of Edith's dance.]
#165: horses of the Rohirrim > horns of the Rohirrim [Already noted in _Reader's Companion_]
#209: he can make the sense-jump [seems>]seem less impossible
#211: Ar-Pharazôn...conquered [a>]or terrified Sauron’s subjects, not Sauron. [Already corrected in _Reader's Companion_]
#211: woodland _leg_ > woodland _lêg_
#329: succeded > succeeded
#341: [Fellow>]Fellows and members
Corrections in #131 compared to the part quoted in _Reader's Companion_ (The latter forms are also used in _Tolkien: Les racines du légendaire_)
In the last pages of this Book we see the hopeless defeat of the forlorn hope. > In the last pages of this Book we see the hopeless defeat of the forlorn hope. Surrounded, hopelessly outnumbered, they await the end.
gaining of wisdom > Wisdom
_αριστεία_ > _ἀριστεία_
no longer possesses > possessed
whole appalling will > Will
unnatural prolongation. > unnatural prolongation of life.
enhancement of bounty > beauty
Changes in editor notes (end notes added for new contents are not included):
#9: No further correspondence survives until the following letter. By the time that Tolkien wrote it, the book had been accepted for publication, and he was already preparing maps and illustrations. > On 30 October, Unwin’s son Rayner, aged 10, wrote a favourable review of the book, and by the time of the following letter it had been accepted for publication, and Tolkien was already preparing maps and illustrations.
#16: Tolkien’s second son Michael, now aged sixteen, was a pupil at the Oratory School in Berkshire, together with his younger brother Christopher. He was hoping to get into the school rugby football team. > Tolkien’s second son, Michael, was hoping to get into the Oratory School’s rugby football team. [His age was already given in introduction to 8c]
#17: Add EN on Regius Professor of Modern History, Joseph Vendryes.
#32: Add EN on Nevill Coghill.
#43: Add "Michael had evidently revealed his attachment to Joan Griffiths, a nurse at Worcester’s Royal Infirmary, who he would go on to marry." in introduction.
#46: EN on Abercrombie is moved to the new passage in #8.
#52: Shorter introduction as already explained in previous letters.
#52 EN: unpublished poem ‘Mythopoeia’ > poem ‘Mythopoeia’
#55: EN on Poptawski moved to #53a.
#56: For ‘The Useless Quack’, see the introductory note to no. 48. > For ‘The Useless Quack’, see no. 42c and the introductory note to no. 48.
#60: EN on Warnie moved to #42c. EN on Mrs. C. moved to #59a. Add EN on C.W. (The abbreviation appeared so many times in the original _Letters_ yet remained unglossed!)
#69: EN on Fr C. moved to #42c.
#72: EN on Section Papers moved to #71b.
#81 EN: Another letter to Christopher Tolkien, dated 22 September 1943, refers to Lewis’s ‘new translation in rhymed alexandrines of the Aeneid’. It was not published. > See also no. 49e.
#83: EN on ‘Jack’ moved to #48 and dropped the Warnie part. EN: Sir William Walton (b. 1902). > (b. 1902–1983).
#107 EN: Nothing is known of this person’s identity. > Richard ‘Horus’ Engels (1914–1991) was a German painter whose illustrations eventually appeared in the first German translation of The Hobbit in 1957.
#133 EN: (To Donald Swann, 14 October 1966.) > See no. 289c.
#147: in the previous letter > in no. 146.
#153: Add EN after "ex quo".
#166: Remove "He sent back this page with the symbols drawn in by hand, whereupon the printers reproduced this rough drawing in facsimile, which was not what he had intended; his wish was that they should set up the phonetic symbols in type" in introduction, as #165b is now published.
#201: Introduction moved to #200a.
#203 EN: _Mallorn_ > _Mythlore_
#205 EN: (The Ballantine paperback edition of The Lord of the Rings has the erroneous reading ‘omentilmo’.) > (The Ballantine paperback edition of The Lord of the Rings originally had the erroneous reading ‘omentilmo’ but was later corrected.)
#206 Intro: At the end of March 1958, Tolkien visited Holland at the invitation of the Rotterdam > For his visit to Rotterdam at the end of March 1958, at the invitation of
#211: Add EN: Tolkien appears to be confusing their ancestry with that of their father, Elrond, and his brother, Elros.
#238 EN: Add "That same year he would publish Books with Men Behind Them, a collection of essays on writers such as Tolkien and his fellow Inklings, C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams." for Edmund Fuller.
#270 EN: The offices of the Houghton Mifflin Co. are in Boston, Mass. > The offices of the Houghton Mifflin Co. were, at that time, in Boston, Mass.
#295 EN: A long unpublished poem entitled ‘Volsungakviða En Nyja’ > A long poem entitled ‘Volsungakviða En Nyja’...and published posthumously.
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