Corrigenda to "Farmer Giles of Ham" 50th anniversary edition

wayne & christina

Corrigenda to the 50th anniversary edition
of Farmer Giles of Ham (1999)

by J.R.R. Tolkien
Edited by Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond

These corrections apply to the original hardcover edition:

p. 86, l. 9 from bottom: The closing quotation mark and full stop should be reversed in order.

p. 89, l. 5 from bottom: The closing quotation mark and full stop should be reversed in order.

p. 95, l. 3 from bottom: A full stop should be added before the closing quotation mark.

p. 97, l. 3: For consistency, for ‘Farmer’ read ‘farmer’.

p. 98, l. 8: The comma after ‘Bad manners’ should be a full stop.

p. 98, l. 20: The closing quotation mark at the end of the line should be inverted.

p. 100, l. 8 from bottom: The closing quotation mark and full stop (after ‘way’) should be reversed in order.

p. 117, ll. 3–7: In a review of our edition on Amazon.co.uk, Alexander Clarkson observed, no doubt rightly, that Fabricius Cunctator is ‘a clear pun on the name of the famous Roman general [Quintus] Fabius [Maximus, known as] Cunctator, who got his cognomen by delaying battle with Hannibal’, i.e. using delaying tactics to wear down Hannibal and the Phoenicians by attrition.

p. 122, l. 6 from bottom: For ‘succed’ read ‘succeed’.

p. 124, l. 5 from bottom: For ‘spelt’ read ‘spelled’ (to be consistent with usage elsewhere in the volume).

We would like to thank Alexander Clarkson, Chris Smith, and Andrew Wells for calling some of these points to our attention.