It kills me that I was rebuffed when I asked for copyright permission to reprint the Tolkien text _The Old English Exodus_ on the grounds that I was a "Tolkien Nut" and not an academic, then, then I bought a boxed set (which contained 4 other books which I already owned), reading the book revealed 20 typos in the 22 pages comprised of the Select Bibliography and poem (they really should've just used a scan of those twain as was done in other similar texts).
Similarly, it's hard to take current discussion of _Dune_ seriously when the word "pogrom" is set as "program" in the e-book (and yes, I have reported this as a typo, and no, it hasn't been fixed, even though the publisher did "update" the book to change the cover).
I have also found that there are a lot more errors in books published post 1990, then pre. Specifically, in the 1940-1988 period, and more specifically, in the decade from 70 to 80, the quality of books was at its acme. Errors were far less than what we see now.
Tolkien was a memorable read. I read it when I was experiencing Covid-caused depression in 2021.
and as implied in that link, have been reading his work since I was quite young, and dipped into the scholarship and linguistic angle when I picked up the paperback edition of _A Tolkien Compass_ in the early 80s.
SFAIK, only Findlay/Watt duo have offered such a guarantee of correctness.
It kills me that I was rebuffed when I asked for copyright permission to reprint the Tolkien text _The Old English Exodus_ on the grounds that I was a "Tolkien Nut" and not an academic, then, then I bought a boxed set (which contained 4 other books which I already owned), reading the book revealed 20 typos in the 22 pages comprised of the Select Bibliography and poem (they really should've just used a scan of those twain as was done in other similar texts).
Similarly, it's hard to take current discussion of _Dune_ seriously when the word "pogrom" is set as "program" in the e-book (and yes, I have reported this as a typo, and no, it hasn't been fixed, even though the publisher did "update" the book to change the cover).
Tolkien was a memorable read. I read it when I was experiencing Covid-caused depression in 2021.
It's interesting how different folks approach his oeuvre --- I have a fairly extensive collection:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tolkienbooks/comments/1oa01zr/four_...
and as implied in that link, have been reading his work since I was quite young, and dipped into the scholarship and linguistic angle when I picked up the paperback edition of _A Tolkien Compass_ in the early 80s.