This list accounts for entries posted beginning 11 May 2008, comprising addenda and corrigenda common to the two volumes of The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide. See here for addenda and corrigenda specifically to vol. 1, the Chronology, arranged by date. See here for addenda and corrigenda to vol. 2, the Reader’s Guide, arranged by date. Begin here for complete lists of addenda and corrigenda to the Companion and Guide.
Index, add entry: Dunne, J.W. II 565.
Index, add cross-reference: ‘Suffield, Emily Jane (aunt) see Neave, Jane (née Suffield)’.
Index, entry for ‘Tolkien, Mary Jane (née Stow)’, l. 1: For ‘Stow’ read ‘Stowe’.
Index, entry for ‘Aldarion and Erendis’: For ‘II 34–5’ read ‘II 34–7’.
Index, entry for ‘Appearance, Tolkien’s’: For ‘II 52–5’ read ‘II 52–3’.
Index, entry for ‘Auden, W.H.’: For II ‘68–70’ read ‘69–70’.
Index, entry for ‘Bombadil Goes Boating’: For II ‘119’ read ‘119–20’.
Index, entry for ‘Chaudry, Arhar’: For ‘Arhar 760’ read ‘Athar I 760’.
Index, add cross-reference: ‘Consolation see Eucatastrophe’.
Index, entry for ‘Crist’: For ‘II 223’ read ‘II 233’.
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, entry for ‘Halsbury, Earl of’: For ‘II 373, 358–9’ read ‘II 358–9, 373’.
Index, entry for ‘Henry Bradley, 3 Dec., 1845–23 May, 1923’: For ‘23May’ read ’23 May’ (with space).
Index, add entry: ‘J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator II 55, 114, 436, 760’.
Index, entry for ‘Lays of Beleriand, The’: For II ‘492’ read ‘492–3’.
Index, entry for ‘Names of the Valar’: Add citation: II 627.
Index, entry for ‘Of the Noldor in Beleriand’: For ‘644’ read ‘II 644–6’.
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: ‘Publishers II 796–8; see also names of individual publishers, e.g. George Allen & Unwin’.
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, entry for ‘Sidmouth’: For II ‘888’ read ‘888–9’.
Index, entry for ‘Staffordshire’: For ‘454,967’ read ‘454, 967’ (with space).
Index, add cross-reference: ‘Suffield, Mabel see Tolkien, Mabel (née Suffield)’.
Index, cross-reference for ‘Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star, The’: For ‘Englo’ read ‘Engla’.
Index, entry for ‘Wyke-Smith, E.A.’: For II ‘1126–30’ read ‘1130–2’.
Works Consulted, entry for Shippey, T.A., The Road to Middle-earth: For ‘withdifferent’ read ‘with different’.
Index, entry for ‘Black Mountains’: Add citation: I 387.
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.
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’.
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’.
Index, entry for ‘Ashmolean Museum’: Delete as separate entry; combine citations ‘II 55, 709’ with those for vol. I under ‘Oxford and environs’.
Index, add cross-reference: ‘Blackfriars see Oxford and environs’.
Index, entry for ‘British Museum’: Delete as separate entry; make a sub-heading under ‘London’.
Index, add cross-reference: ‘Lamb and Flag see Oxford and environs’.
Index, entry for ‘Application for the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, An’: For ‘1301’ read ‘130’.
Index, entry for ‘HMHS Asturias’: For ‘95’ read ‘I 95’.
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, entry for ‘Smith of Wootton Major’: For ‘I 244’ read, in second sequence, ‘II 244’.
Copyright statement, p. [2], l. 13 from bottom: For ‘13 November’ read ‘16 November’.
Preface, general note: 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.
Index, prefatory note, ll. 9–10: For ‘Reader’s Guide’ read (boldfaced) ‘Reader’s Guide’.
Index, entry for ‘Ambarkanta’: For ‘II 41–3’ read ‘II 42–3’.
Index, entry for ‘Barad-dûr’: Add citation: II 544.
Index, add entry: ‘Brandywine Ferry’ I 213.
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, entry for ‘Cottage, Barnt Green, The’: Add citation: I 43.
Index, add entry: ‘Dragon and Warrior’ I 145, II 86.
Index, entry for ‘Dunharrow, drawings of’: Add citation: II 544.
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, add cross-reference: ‘Grendel’s Mere’ see Wudu Wyrtum Fæst.
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 ‘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, 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: Keystone of Door I 34, II 104.
Index, add cross-reference: Kirith Ungol see Cirith Ungol.
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, 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 ‘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, add entry: ‘Quallington Carpenter’ Eastbury, Berkshire I 34, II 104.
Index, add entry: Rhyme I 224.
Index, entry for ‘Ruins at West End of Whitby Abbey’: Add citation: I 20.
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, add entry: Smith, Philip I 748, 771.
Index, add entry: Stanburg (Steinborg) I 280.
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, Michael’, l. 9: Delete second, extraneous citation to I 747.
Index, entry for ‘Tolkien, Michael George’, l. 7: For II ‘749’ read ‘750’.
Index, entry for ‘Vale of Tol Sirion, The’: For ‘Vale of Tol Sirion’ read ‘Vale of Sirion’.
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’.
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