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- From: alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson)
- Subject: Re: Subcreation (was Re: Hobbits)
- In-Reply-To: samw@bucket.rain.com (Sam Warden)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.155313.10450@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Originator: alderson@leland.Stanford.EDU
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson)
- Organization: Cisco Systems (MIS)
- References: <samw.727253780@bucket> <1993Jan17.225529.4687@leland.Stanford.EDU> <samw.727556042@bucket> <1993Jan21.083253.14646@leland.Stanford.EDU> <samw.727937271@bucket>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 15:53:13 GMT
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- In article <samw.727937271@bucket>, samw@bucket (Sam Warden) writes:
-
- >And I didn't mean to belittle the literary history, even though I was mistaken
- >about it. One reason has occurred to me: I've probably never read the
- >unrevised Hobbit! I've only read the Houghton-Mifflin and Ballantine
- >editions, which I think were revised post-LOTR.
-
- (Of course, hasn't HM always been the American publisher? :-)
-
- You should lay hands on _The Annotated Hobbit_, in which differences in
- readings between the original and revised editions are noted, including the
- complete text of the story of Bilbo and Gollum where it diverged (revised
- edition text in the chapter _Riddles in the Dark_, original in 2 long notes in
- the back).
- --
- Rich Alderson 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take
- such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- --J. R. R. Tolkien,
- alderson@leland.stanford.edu _The Lost Road_
-