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Re: First Editions
Boy, thanks for the help, Mithadan. Tolkien-ites are such nice people!
No, unfortunately, I'm not eyeing a prospective first edition buy. More like research on an article Kittle has invited me to write -- a counterpoint on "The Olog-hai Question" (see the "Who knows their trolls?" thread if you have an evening to burn). I'm trying to find out if the Appendix F ref to them is original material or maybe something the prof added later after he got letters asking, "Hey, I thought trolls couldn't stand the sun!" Or words to that effect. It's a big help to know (almost) for certain that the ref is original material. My UT is buried in storage somewhere, unfortunately, but I seem to remember some note in there, too, about Tolkien saying he wished he hadn't promised Appendices, because the slim amount of room he'd be able to spend on them wouldn't be enough to satisfy anyone, especially himself, but I wasn't sure if this was in reference to a revised edition or if it was sometime after "Fellowship" and "Two Towers" were out but before "Return" had been published.
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