Interesting tangent to this story:
Huckleberry Finn loses the 'n****r' he loves, thanks to a publisher's ethnic cleansing
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture...nic-cleansing/
I find this interesting - we're (apparently) about to see a multi-racial Middle-earth (on film at least) & a possible crackdown on any appearance of smoking in the films. Will we ever see this kind of 'ethnic cleansing' in the books? Maybe we'll see an edition of the books at some point with the smoking excised - not to mention all those 'negative' references to 'black' ...