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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 21:40:16 -0000 (UTC), "O. Sharp"    
   wrote:   
      
   >Louis Epstein  quotes and asks:   
   >>>>       "'Yes,'said Frodo.'...now all is over.   
   >>>>       I am glad you are here with me.Here at   
   >>>>       the end of all things,Sam.'"   
   >>>>    
   >>>>       "'I am glad that you are here with me,'   
   >>>>       said Frodo.'Here at the end of all things,   
   >>>>       Sam.'"   
   >[...]   
   >>    
   >> I do not have any pre-1966 "First Edition" copies,but my oldest   
   >> Ballantine and HMCo Second Editions both have the discrepancy.   
   >>    
   >> Did Hammond & Scull flag this in their work?   
   >   
   >The First Edition has the same discrepancy for "that", and Hammond and    
   >Scull's _Reader's Companion_ makes no note of it. In fact that line of    
   >Frodo's (or those lines, if you prefer) doesn't even rate a mention in    
   >_HoME IX_, even though it includes a reference to a plot outline where    
   >Frodo was still named "Bingo". I guess _nobody_ wanted to point it out    
   >before now.  :)   
      
   Or perhaps everybody else was sane enough to recognize that the two   
   situations produced similar thoughts.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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