Gimli's forgetfulness? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

jallanite · 03-21-2014, 04:50 PM

This is a well-known discrepancy. See http://www.google.ca/search?q=till+n...iw=904&bih=507 for numerous comments.

It has not been corrected because mostly Christopher Tolkien and Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull have only corrected discrepancies where the change is minor. Wayne G. Hammond and Chistina Scull mention in “NOTE ON THE 50ᵀᴴ ANNIVERSARY EDITION” in current publications of Fellowship:

But those inconsistencies of content, such as Gimli’s famous (and erroneous) statement in Book III, Chapter 7, ‘Till now I have hewn naught but wood since I left Moria’, which would require rewriting rather than than simple correction, remain unchanged.

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jallanite Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Toronto Posts: 479	This is a well-known discrepancy. See http://www.google.ca/search?q=till+n...iw=904&bih=507 for numerous comments. It has not been corrected because mostly Christopher Tolkien and Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull have only corrected discrepancies where the change is minor. Wayne G. Hammond and Chistina Scull mention in “NOTE ON THE 50ᵀᴴ ANNIVERSARY EDITION” in current publications of Fellowship: But those inconsistencies of content, such as Gimli’s famous (and erroneous) statement in Book III, Chapter 7, ‘Till now I have hewn naught but wood since I left Moria’, which would require rewriting rather than than simple correction, remain unchanged. Last edited by jallanite; 03-21-2014 at 04:58 PM.