General comments on The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide may be read here. Addenda and corrigenda to vol. 1, the Chronology, may be read here. Addenda and corrigenda to vol. 2, the Reader’s Guide, may be read here. Addenda and corrigenda common to both volumes may be read here. See also here for addenda and corrigenda added by date (beginning 11 May 2008).
Elena Rossi has kindly compiled a list of references to Tolkien’s art in the Chronology. An edited version (Word format) may be read here.
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide was sent to HarperCollins on 20 August 2006 as completed PDFs and immediately put into production. Late the next month, we received the September 2006 issue (no. 201) of Amon Hen, the bulletin of the Tolkien Society, with the article ‘They Slept in Beauty’ by Maggie Burns on pp. 11-12. Using local history resources, Maggie discovered that Jane Suffield and Edwin Neave were not married until August 1905, and that in 1904 Jane was a teacher at Bath Row Girls’ School in Birmingham. Humphrey Carpenter, therefore, was incorrect in J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography when he stated that Jane and Edwin were already married when Ronald was sent in 1904 to stay with Edwin’s family in Hove; and our tentative identification in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator of the two figures in Ronald’s drawing They Slept in Beauty Side by Side as Edwin and Jane must also be incorrect. Maggie suggests that the drawing is of Edwin and Ronald, and this seems most likely.
As it was too late for any corrections to be made to the Companion and Guide before publication, we decided to postpone further investigation of this matter until our next visit to England, planned for April 2007. In January 2007, however, we were contacted by Andrew H. Morton, who had become interested in Jane Neave because of their shared connections with Gedling, and were asked for information about her relationship with the Brookes-Smith family. We told Andrew what we knew and suggested leads he might follow. He eventually uncovered a great deal of new material, and even made contact with Colin Brookes-Smith’s daughter. In his enquiries to St Andrews, he was luckier than we: we had been told that no evidence could be found to confirm that Jane Neave had been warden of a college there, but Andrew was sent details of the period from summer 1909 to the end of 1911, when Jane was Lady Warden of University Hall. (Perhaps the archives have been more thoroughly catalogued or digitized in the five years since we wrote to St Andrews, or a different staff member was willing to search more thoroughly.)
Andrew and his companion researcher, John Hayes, plan to publish at least two books on Jane Neave, who turns out to have been even more remarkable than we had known. The first of these, Tolkien’s Gedling, 1914: The Birth of a Legend, is available from Brewin Books, Studley, Warwickshire. We were pleased to read it in draft and to suggest various revisions, but have not yet seen the final text. The second book will be concerned with Jane Neave’s Worcestershire farm ‘Bag End’.
Most of our addenda and corrigenda concerning Jane and Edwin Neave and the Brookes-Smith family are based on the work of Maggie Burns, Andrew H. Morton, and John Hayes, to whom we are very grateful.
In addition to those mentioned above, we would like to thank Paula Bergstrom, John Buckelew, David ‘Hisilome’, Merlin DeTardo, Michaël Devaux, David Doughan, Jeremy Edmonds, Andrew Ferguson, Jason Fisher, Timothy Fisher, Mike Foster, Colin Harper, William C. Hicklin, hisataka@csc.jp, Josh B. Long, Jeremy Marshall, Rumas Nicholas, Ed Pierce, Juha-Matti Rajala, Alan Reynolds, Elena Rossi, Marek Srodziemie, Simon Stacey, Yvan Strelzyk, Tonny ten Dam, Christopher Tolkien, and Tony Wearing for calling various points to our attention. For assistance with the minutes of the Oxford Dante Society, we are grateful to the staff of the Taylor Institution Library, Oxford.
Preface, p. xiii, fourth paragraph: In the Chronology, wherever we have inserted a reference ‘see note’, the reader is directed to the section of Notes to the Chronology beginning on p. 776 of that volume.
Preface, p. xiv, second paragraph: In general, we have written separate entries for those of Tolkien’s poems that are published in whole or in large part (i.e. more than a few lines), and are not integral with a larger literary work, e.g. the poems of The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings. We have omitted separate entry only for clerihews and for the drinking songs contributed by Tolkien to Songs for the Philologists.
Preface, p. xv, general notes on style: In the Reader’s Guide, all entries for persons whose surname begins ‘Mc’ or ‘Mac’ are alphabetized as if the name begins with Mac; thus the entry for R.B. McCallum appears before that for Gervase Mathew. Entries for works whose titles begin with ‘Of’ are alphabetized according to the first significant element, e.g. the entry for ‘Of the Beginning of Days’ (in The Silmarillion) is alphabetized under ‘Beginning’.
Works Consulted, entry for Kilby, Clyde S.: For ‘Tolkien and the Silmarillion’ read ‘Tolkien & the Silmarillion’.
Works Consulted, entry for Shippey, T.A., The Road to Middle-earth: For ‘withdifferent’ read ‘with different’.
Index, prefatory note: For the most part, buildings, churches, hotels, pubs, etc. are entered as sub-headings under the place in which they are located, e.g. the Randolph Hotel under ‘Oxford and environs’.
We should have mentioned that we chose not to index the names of characters (or places, etc.) in Tolkien’s works. This was partly for lack of space – the Reader’s Guide in fact reached the limit of the number of pages that could be bound in one volume – but also because our study generally is of the larger picture of the works rather than the tighter focus of individual characters. (See, however, comments on Tom Bombadil in the entry for the poem The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, on Galadriel in the entry for The History of Galadriel and Celeborn, and so forth. But see also our Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion.)
We must also reiterate our caveat at the head of the index: The following is not meant to trace every mention of every person, place, or title in our text, but to point to those elements most pertinent to Tolkien’s life and works, or otherwise likely to be of interest to readers, including the names of authorities and other writers. An index which mechanically traces every mention of every term is less helpful to the reader than one which does not, because it will lead to material that is only tangential to the principal subject of the book. The quality ‘likely to be of interest to readers’ of course is entirely subjective.
Index, prefatory note, ll. 9–10: For ‘Reader’s Guide’ read (boldfaced) ‘Reader’s Guide’.
Index, entry for ‘Aldarion and Erendis’: For ‘II 34–5’ read ‘II 34–7’.
Index, entry for ‘Ambarkanta’: For ‘II 41–3’ read ‘II 42–3’.
Index, entry for ‘Appearance, Tolkien’s’: For ‘II 52–5’ read ‘II 52–3’.
Index, entry for ‘Application for the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, An’: For ‘1301’ read ‘130’.
Index, entry for ‘Ashmolean Museum’: Delete as separate entry; combine citations ‘II 55, 709’ with those for vol. I under ‘Oxford and environs’.
Index, entry for ‘HMHS Asturias’: For ‘95’ read ‘I 95’.
Index, entry for ‘Auden, W.H.’: For II ‘68–70’ read ‘69–70’.
Index, entry for ‘Barad-dûr’: Add citation: II 544.
Index, entry for ‘Black Mountains’: Add citation: I 387.
Index, add cross-reference: Blackfriars see Oxford and environs.
Index, entry for ‘Bombadil Goes Boating’: For II ‘119’ read ‘119–20’.
Index, add entry: ‘Brandywine Ferry’ I 213.
Index, entry for ‘British Museum’: Delete as separate entry; make a sub-heading under ‘London’.
Index, entry for ‘Chaudry, Arhar’: For ‘Arhar 760’ read ‘Athar I 760’.
Index, entry for ‘Childe, F.J.’: For ‘Childe’ read ‘Child’.
Index, add entry: Christmas 1933 I 171.
Index, add entry: Cirith Ungol, drawings of I 272, 335.
Index, add cross-reference: ‘Coiled Dragon’ see Hringboga Heorte Gefysed.
Index, add cross-reference: Consolation see Eucatastrophe.
Index, entry for ‘Cottage, Barnt Green, The’: Add citation: I 43.
Index, entry for ‘Crist’: For ‘II 223’ read ‘II 233’.
Index, add entry: ‘Dragon and Warrior’ I 145, II 86.
Index, entry for ‘Dunharrow, drawings of’: Add citation: II 544.
Index, add entry: Dunne, J.W. II 565.
Index, add cross-reference: Fangorn Forest see Taur-na-Fúin.
Index, entry for ‘Forest of Lothlorien in Spring, The’: Add citation: II 544.
Index, entry for ‘Foxglove Year’: Add citation: I 43.
Index, add entry: Gargoyles, South Side, Lambourn I 34, II 104.
Index, entry for ‘Gipsy Green’: Add citation: I 104.
Index, entry for ‘Good and Evil’: For II ‘341–6’ read ‘341–5’.
Index, entry for ‘Great Haywood’: For II ‘351’ read ‘351–2’.
Index, add cross-reference: ‘Grendel’s Mere’ see Wudu Wyrtum Fæst.
Index, entry for ‘Halsbury, Earl of’: For ‘II 373, 358–9’ read ‘II 358–9, 373’.
Index, entry for ‘Helm’s Deep, aerial view’: Add citation: II 544.
Index, entry for ‘Helm’s Deep and the Hornburg’: Add citation: II 544.
Index, entry for ‘Henry Bradley, 3 Dec., 1845–23 May, 1923’: For ‘23May’ read ’23 May’ (with space).
Index, entry for ‘High Life at Gipsy Green’: For ‘II 616’ read ‘I 104, II 616, 979’.
Index, add entry: Hringboga Heorte Gefysed (‘Coiled Dragon’) I 141, II 86.
Index, entry for ‘Hushwood, Cyril’: For ‘Hushwood, Cyril’ read ‘Hinshelwood, C.N.’ and relocate alphabetically.
Index, add entry: Idril’s Device I 566.
Index, add entry: Isengard & Orthanc I 255.
Index, add entry: Isengard/Nan Curunir I 255.
Index, add entry: J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator II 55, 114, 436, 760.
Index, add entry: Keystone of Door I 34, II 104.
Index, add cross-reference: Kirith Ungol see Cirith Ungol.
Index, entry for ‘La Boiselle’: For ‘La Boiselle’ read ‘La Boisselle’.
Index, add cross-reference: Lamb and Flag see Oxford and environs.
Index, entry for ‘Lays of Beleriand, The’: For II ‘492’ read ‘492–3’.
Index, entry for ‘Lunar Landscape’: Add citation: I 132.
Index, add entry: Me and My House I 114–15, II 297.
Index, add entry: A Merry Christmas 1940 A Happy New Year 1941 I 245.
Index, entry for ‘Minas Morgul, drawing of’: For ‘drawing’ read ‘drawings’; for ‘251’ read ‘251, 271’.
Index, entry for ‘Minas Tirith, drawings of’: Add citation: II 544.
Index, entry for ‘Moria Gate’: Add citation: II 544.
Index, add entry: ‘Mountain Landscape’ I 146.
Index, cross-reference from ‘Mythology for England’ to ‘England’ and ‘Eriol and Aelfwine’: Instead of a cross-reference, it would have been more helpful for us to cite II 245–8, 258–62, 441.
Index, entry for ‘Names of the Valar’: Add citation: II 627.
Index, entry for ‘Neave, Jane’, l. 7: For II ‘749’ read ‘750’.
Index, entry for ‘New Lodge, Stonyhurst’: Change heading from italics to roman, referring to the place rather than the work of art, and add new entry as follows.
Index, add entry: New Lodge, Stonyhurst I 321, II 981.
Index, add entry: 1931–32 N.P.B. Karhu I 162.
Index, add entry: 1932 A Merry Christmas I 166, II 298.
Index, entry for ‘Of the Noldor in Beleriand’: For ‘644’ read ‘II 644–6’.
Index, entry for ‘Númenórean carpet’: For ‘‘Númenórean carpet’’ read ‘Númenórean Carpet’.
Index, entry for ‘Old Man Willow’: Add citation: II 544.
Index, add entry: One Page of the Book of Moria I 243.
Index, entry for ‘Orthanc, drawings of’: Add citation: II 544.
Index, entry for ‘Oxford and environs: general’: For II ‘693–710’ read ‘693–713’.
Index, entry for ‘Oxford, University of’: In first sequence of citations, add: ‘II 713–25 etc.’
Index, add entry : Prequel (used for ‘The Silmarillion’) I 704.
Index, add entry: Publishers II 796–8; see also names of individual publishers, e.g. George Allen & Unwin.
Index, add entry: ‘Quallington Carpenter’ Eastbury, Berkshire I 34, II 104.
Index, entry for ‘Quest of Erebor, The’: For II ‘810–13’ read ‘810–12’.
Index, entry for ‘Reilly, R.J.’: Following the first instance of this entry, bottom of col. 1 of I 978 and II 1238, delete five draft or duplicate entries at top of col. 2 (Reincarnation of Elves to second instance of Reilly, R.J.).
Index, add entry: Rhyme I 224.
Index, entry for ‘Ruins at West End of Whitby Abbey’: Add citation: I 20.
Index, entry for ‘St Andrews, Scotland’: Add citations: I, 20, 34, 226, 701, 777. For sub-entry ‘University of’, add citations: I 211, 226, 327, 610, 627.
Index, entry for ‘St Andrews from Kinkell Brake’: Add citation: I 20.
Index, entry for ‘Sidmouth’: For II ‘888’ read ‘888–9’.
Index, entry for ‘Sigurd, story of’: Add citation: II 217.
Index, entry for ‘Silmarillion, The’: Move the citation to I 64 after that for I 58–9.
Index, add entry: ‘Sketch of Whitby’ I 20, II 1101.
Index, entry for ‘Smaug Flies Round the Lonely Mountain’: Replace this title with ‘Lonely Mountain, The’ and relocate alphabetically.
Index, entry for ‘Smith, Mr (George Allen & Unwin)’: Delete. The citation should appear in the entry for ‘Smith, L.G.’
Index, entry for ‘Smith, Nancy’: For I ‘654’ read ‘655’.
Index, add entry: Smith, Philip I 748, 771.
Index, entry for ‘Smith of Wootton Major’: For ‘I 244’ read, in second sequence, ‘II 244’.
Index, entry for ‘Staffordshire’: For ‘454,967’ read ‘454, 967’ (with space).
Index, add entry: Stanburg (Steinborg) I 280.
Index, entry for ‘Steinbeck, John’: Delete.
Index, add cross-reference: Suffield, Emily Jane (aunt) see Neave, Jane (née Suffield).
Index, add cross-reference: Suffield, Mabel see Tolkien, Mabel (née Suffield).
Index, entry for ‘Summer in Kerry’: For ‘II 637’ read ‘I 376, 794, II 432, 637’.
Index, entry for ‘Taur-na-Fúin’: For ‘Taur-na-Fúin’ read ‘Taur-na-Fúin (Fangorn Forest)’.
Index, entry for ‘Tolkien, Mary Jane (née Stow)’, l. 1: For ‘Stow’ read ‘Stowe’.
Index, entry for ‘Tolkien, Michael’, l. 9: Delete second, extraneous citation to I 747.
Index, entry for ‘Tolkien, Michael George’, l. 7: For II ‘749’ read ‘750’.
Index, add entry: Tutors (University of Oxford) II 715, 721, 722, 723.
Index, entry for ‘Vale of Tol Sirion, The’: For ‘Vale of Tol Sirion’ read ‘Vale of Sirion’.
Index, cross-reference for ‘Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star, The’: For ‘Englo’ read ‘Engla’.
Index, entry for ‘Wagner, Richard, Der Ring des Nibelungen’: Add citations: II 616, 999.
Index, entry for ‘Whitby’: Add citation: I 20; delete continuation for ‘Sketch of Whitby’ (made its own entry and expanded).
Index, entry for ‘Wilderland’: For ‘195’ read ‘194’.
Index, entry for ‘Wudu Wyrtum Fæst’: For ‘Wudu Wyrtum Fæst I 146’ read ‘Wudu Wyrtum Fæst (‘Grendel’s Mere’) I 146, II 86’.
Index, entry for ‘Wyke-Smith, E.A.’: For II ‘1126–30’ read ‘1130–2’.
Index, entry for ‘Yorkshire Dialect Society’: The capital ‘Y’ is missing.
Copyright statement, p. [2], l. 13 from bottom: For ‘13 November’ read ‘16 November’.
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