This list accounts for entries posted since 14 June 2024 of addenda and corrigenda common to the two parts of the revised edition of The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (Chronology in one volume, and Reader’s Guide in two). Elsewhere on this site may be read a comprehensive list of common addenda and corrigenda; addenda and corrigenda specific to vol. 1, the Chronology, arranged by date; and addenda and corrigenda specific to vols. 2 and 3 , the Reader’s Guide, arranged by date. Significant revisions of addenda or corrigenda (as opposed to revisions of the Companion and Guide proper), but not merely additions, are marked thus: [REVISED]. Hyperlinks are included selectively, to lead to further (especially pictorial) material; for additional links, and full bibliographical citations, see the supplemental bibliography.
Preface, p. xiv, first paragraph: It occurs to us that, being so close to Tolkien’s works and literature about them (although this will be true also of many of our readers), we may have taken too great a liberty in the Reader’s Guide in referring to ‘The Silmarillion’ as Tolkien’s ‘legendarium’ or ‘mythology’ without making it sufficiently clear that these are frequent synonyms for ‘The Silmarillion’; and therefore, it seems good to add a note to our introduction that this was our usage. If we had been more careful, we might have used legendarium for the body of stories and poems which make up ‘The Silmarillion’ and mythology for the body of created places, peoples, events, and so forth.
Index, entry for Courage Speaks with the Love of Earth etc.: Change heading to the final title, and relocate, as ‘The Two Riders (Courage Speaks to a Child of Earth, Now and Ever)’.
Index, entry for The Dream of the Rood: For ‘154’ read ‘46’.
Index, add cross-reference: ‘Hall, John R. Clark see Clark Hall, John R.’
Index, entry for Leslie Risden Huxtable: For ’99, 98, 97, 109’ read ’97, 98, 99, 109’.
Index, entry for Introduction to German Philology: For ‘German’ read ‘Germanic’.
Index, entry for E.H. Knatchull-Hugessen, l. 3: For ‘1033’ read ‘1053’.
Index, add entry: ‘Nargothrond, illustrations of c 156, 203, g 1157; see also Glórund Sets Forth to Seek Túrin’.
Index, entry for Oratory School, Caversham: Add reference to pp. 225, 246, and 260.
Index, entry for Oratory School, Woodcote: Add reference to p. 360.
Index, entry for ‘The Silmarillion’, col. 1, l. 3 from bottom: Add references to c 151, 203.
Index, entry for ‘Of Beren and Lúthien’, l. 6: For ‘RoosBeren’ read ‘Beren’.
Index, entry for Copernicus and Ptolemy: The entry point should be Dark, which is both the earliest and latest title for the poem, relocated alphabetically. The entry should then read (with an added citation to Chronology p. 69): ‘Dark c 65, 67; Copernicus and Ptolemy c 67, 69, 71, 110, g 1422; Copernicus v. Ptolemy c 67’.
Index, entry for Haggard, H. Rider: Add after ‘g 475–9’: ‘Eric Brighteyes g 1054’.
Index, entry for From Iffley: Delete, as duplicate of From the Many-Willow’d Margin of the Immemorial Thames (the title we give this poem in the present book).
Index, entry for From the Many-Willow’d Margin of the Immemorial Thames: Add, after title, ‘(From Iffley)’. Also add reference to c 71.
Preface, p. xv: Add to the list of books for which we abbreviate titles for convenience: Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth by Catherine McIlwaine, et al. (2018), as Maker of Middle-earth.
Index, entry for The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (poem), l. 2: Delete ‘156’.
Index, entry for Battle of Maldon, The: Delete ‘154’.
Index, entry for Errantry: Delete ‘156, 157’. For ‘167’ read ‘166–7’.
Index, entry for From Iffley: Add reference to c 71.
Index, entries for Guðrúnarkviða en forna and Guðrúnarkviða en nýja: Move to follow entry for Gustafsson, Lars (the eth character stands for th).
Index, entry for Haggard, H. Rider, King Solomon’s Mines: Add reference to c 557 (for the film version).
Index, entry for The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son, l. 2: Delete ‘157’.
Index, entry for Horses: Add ‘see also King Edward’s Horse’.
Index, entry for Inklings (C.S. Lewis): Replace citations with: ‘c 118, 182, 217, 231, 246–60 passim, 265, 267, 276, 277, 285–97 passim, 302, 312, 314, 315, 318, 322, 323–4, 329, 331, 333, 334, 339, 343–52 passim, 358, 363, 460, 571, 644, 741, 742, 839, 840, 841, 842, 847, 850, 851, 853, g 97, 100, 120, 161, 165, 166, 207, 208, 214, 247, 266–7, 281, 290, 318, 321, 327, 357, 362, 363, 369, 396, 446, 447, 448, 471, 481, 482, 487, 569–76, 587–8, 683, 689, 691, 696, 748, 755, 756, 779, 870, 872–3, 873–4, 900, 920–1, 923, 924, 925, 926, 931, 1059, 1070, 1129, 1233–4, 1261, 1302, 1338, 1391–2, 1417, 1418–19, 1420, 1429, 1432, 1444; name g 569–70’.
Index, entry for Lewis, C.S., l. 2: For (c) ‘206’ read ‘207’.
Index, entry for Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, The Song of Hiawatha: Add references to g 209, 1055.
Index, entry for Lovelace Society: For ‘Lovelace Society’ read ‘Lovelace Club’.
Index, entry for Ormulum: For ‘g 968’ read ‘g 204, 968’.
Index, entry for Oxford and environs, l. 7: Add reference (before ‘59 St John Street’): 39 St John Street c 114.
Index, entry for Oxford and environs, sub-entry for ‘Franciscan friary’: Revise, and relocate within this entry, as ‘Greyfriars (Franciscan friary) c 170–1, 198’.
Index, entry for A Secret Vice: For ‘c 72, 154’ read ‘c 79, 155’.
Index, entry for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: In the list of Chronology references, add ‘838’.
Index, entry for Sketch of the Mythology, delete c 151.
Index, entry for ‘The Tale of Eärendel’: For ‘Eäarendel’ read ‘Eärendel’.
Index, entry for Tolkien, Faith: Add ‘743’ at end of Chronology citations.
Index, entry for The Wanderer: Delete ‘154’; add ‘234’
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