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   From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   In rec.arts.books.tolkien Paul S Person  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   So you believe it was two different situations and lines   
   rather than the same line chronicled differently?   
      
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