Corrigenda to the Index to
Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981 & 2023)

p. 456, col. 1, l. 11 from bottom: For ‘Hallow’ read ‘Hallows’’ (with an apostrophe).

p. 456, col. 2: Under ‘George Allen & Unwin’ add reference to p. 349 in the first sequence of (italicized) numbers.

p. 457, col. 2: Under ‘Asfaloth’ delete reference to p. 211.

p. 459, col. 2: Add entry ‘Boswell, James 387’.

p. 463, col. 2, l. 25: For ‘Earendel’ read ‘Earendil’.

p. 464, col. 2: Under ‘Elves (represent aesthetic and creative aspects of Mankind)’, for ‘149’ read ‘148’.

p. 464, col. 2, l. 6 from bottom: Delete reference to p. 204.

p. 467, col. 1: Under ‘Fairy-stories (adult genre)’ add reference to pp. 232–3. In sub-section ‘and children’ delete reference to p. 232.

p. 468, col. 1: Add entry ‘Florence (Italy) 376’.

p. 468, col. 1: Under ‘Free will’ add references to pp. 200, 236.

p. 468, col. 2: Under ‘Gamgee, Sam (correspondent)’ add (unitalicized) reference to p. 245.

p. 468, col. 2: Under ‘Gamgee, Samwise (Sam)’ add sub-entry ‘gives up hope 101’.

p. 465, col. 1, l. 2: For ‘etenal’ read ‘eternal’.

p. 466, col. 1, l. 1: Delete reference to p. 107.

p. 470, col. 1: Under ‘Gollum (Sméagol)’ for ‘34–5’ read ‘234–5’.

p. 470, col. 1: Under ‘God (Writer of the Story)’ add reference to p. 253.

p. 470, col. 2: Under ‘Gondwanaland’ add reference to p. 65.

p. 470, col. 2, l. 26: For ‘resistable’ read ‘resistible’.

p. 471, col. 1: Delete ‘The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) 131’.

p. 471, col. 1: Under ‘Greek language’ delete duplicate reference to p. 343 (between ‘380’ and ‘384’).

p. 471, col. 2: For ‘The Hall at Bag End’ read ‘The Hall at Bag-End’.

p. 473, col. 1: Under ‘Hobbits’ correct sub-section to ‘Periain, P(h)erriannath’.

p. 473, col. 2: Under ‘Hobbits (‘hobbit’ used figuratively)’ for ‘247, 227’ read ‘227, 247’.

p. 473, col. 2: Correct spelling of names and delete comma in entry title ‘The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son’.

p. 474, col. 1: Under ‘Incledon, Marjorie’ for ‘453, 441’ read ‘441, 453’.

p. 474, col. 2: Under ‘Italian language’ delete reference to p. 419.

p. 474, col. 2: Under ‘Joad, C.E.M.’ add reference to p. 131.

p. 475, col. 1: For ‘Kirby, W.H.’ read ‘Kirby, W.F.’

p. 475, col. 2: Under ‘Language (planned book on language with C.S. Lewis)’ add reference to p. 105.

p. 477, col. 2, ll. 4–5: Delete references to pp. 68 and 84.

p. 477, col. 2: Under ‘Lewis, C.S. (Friendship with Tolkien: Lewis reads, reviews The Hobbit)’ add reference to p. 24, delete reference to p. 124.

p. 477, col. 2: For ‘Light as Leaf on Linden Tree’ read ‘Light as Leaf on Lindentree’.

p. 478, col. 1: Under ‘The Lord of the Rings’, sub-entry ‘Writing’, l. 3, add after ‘first chapter’ references, ‘first use of The Lord of the Ring(s) as title 40’.

p. 479, col. 2: Under entry for ‘The Lord of the Rings’, sub-entry ‘Recordings and adaptations: BBC radio broadcasts’, delete duplicate reference to pp. 228-9.

p. 480, col. 2, ll. 28–9: Under ‘The Lord of the Rings (Contents, author’s intentions: sanity and sanctity in LR)’ add reference to p. 413.

p. 481, col. 1: For ‘Lovelace Society’ read ‘Lovelace Club’. Tolkien consistently wrote ‘Lovelace Society’, but its name was officially ‘the Lovelace Club’.

p. 481, col. 1: Add entry: ‘Lutherans 96’.

p. 481, col. 2: For ‘The Man in the Moon’ read ‘The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon’.

p. 482, col. 1, l. 3 from bottom: For ‘Man’ read ‘Men’.

p. 483, col. 2: Under ‘Morgan, Francis’ add citation for p. 53.

p. 484, col. 2, l. 21: For ‘Fairy-story’ read ‘Fairy-stories’.

p. 485, col. 2: Under ‘Numenoreans’, sub-entry ‘tradition of men out of the sea’, add reference to p. 212.

p. 486, col. 1, l. 18: Delete reference to p. 27.

p. 486, col. 2: Under ‘Ouboter, C.’ for ‘265, 267’ read ‘267, 265’.

p. 486, col. 2: Under ‘Oxford’ for ‘398, 393’ read ‘393, 398’, and for ‘432, 430’ read ‘430, 432’.

p. 486, col. 2: Under ‘Oxford, University of (Tolkien as undergraduate)’ for the sub-heading ‘undergraduate’ read ‘undergraduate:’ (with a colon). For ‘Stapeldon’ read ‘Stapledon’.

p. 487, col. 1, l. 15: For ‘Leverholme’ read ‘Leverhulme’.

p. 487, col. 1, l. 27: Delete references to pp. 165, 168.

p. 487, col. 1, l. 31: For ‘300–1’ read ‘165, 300–1’.

p. 488, col. 2: In the cross-reference ‘Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon’, the see reference should read ‘Oxford, University of: Tolkien as professor’.

p. 489, col. 2: For ‘The Rings of Power’ read ‘Of the Rings of Power’.

p. 491, col. 2: Under ‘Sea’ add reference to p. 212.

p. 494, col. 1: Delete index entry for Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. We are convinced by our friend David Doughan that Tolkien’s reference to ‘Joad’ on p. 131 was to the philosopher and radio personality C.E.M. Joad, who was caught travelling by rail without a ticket. (Cf. correction for p. 474.)

p. 494, col. 1: Under ‘The Story of Kullervo’ add reference to p. 214.

p. 494, col. 1, l. 1: For ‘213–4’ read ‘213–14’.

p. 494, col. 1: The two entries for ‘Spiders’ should be revised and combined, with an additional citation, thus: ‘Spiders, in general 217, 392; in Middle-earth 79, 180, 217’.

p. 494, col. 2: Add entry: ‘Taylor, Paul B., The Elder Edda (trans. with Auden) 379, 452’.

p. 494, col. 2, l. 3 from bottom: For ‘Fëanorean’ read ‘Fëanorian’.

p. 496, col. 1: Under ‘Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (Life and character)’, the see cross-reference from ‘employment’ directed to ‘Oxford University’ should direct instead to ‘Oxford, University of’; and for ‘Wales (University of)’ read ‘Wales, University of’.

pp. 496, col. 2–497: Under ‘Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel’, sub-headings (such as Food and drink, Gardening, and Health) should be followed by a colon, e.g. ‘Food and drink:’.

p. 497, col. 2: Under ‘Tolkien, J.R.R (Religion: owes faith to his mother)’ for ‘473’ read ‘437’.

p. 498, col. 1: For ‘Torthelm’ read ‘Torhthelm’.

p. 498, col. 2, l. 5: Delete reference to p. 450.

p. 499, col. 1: Under ‘Unwin, Rayner’, l. 5, for ‘364–5’ read ‘364–6’.

p. 499, col. 2: Under ‘Unwin, Stanley’, ll. 4–5, for ‘140, 139, 140’ read ‘139, 140’.

p. 499, col. 2: In section V add cross-reference ‘Valar see Ainur’.

p. 500, col. 1: Under ‘Voorhoeve en Dietrich’ for ‘265, 267’ read ‘267, 265’.

p. 501, col. 1, l. 1: For ‘All Hallows Eve’ read ‘All Hallows’ Eve’.

p. 501, col. 2: The sub-entry ‘Maginot Line 395’ under ‘World War I’ should be placed under ‘World War II’.

p. 501, col. 1: Under ‘Wiseman, Christopher L.’ the italicized reference ‘429’ should precede the unitalicized page references.

p. 501, col. 2, l. 25: For ‘83’ read ‘85’.

p. 501, col. 2, final line: For ‘103’ read ‘102’.

p. 642, col. 1, l. 26: For ‘387’ read ‘397’.

p. 647, col. 2, l. 18 from bottom: Delete the semi-colon at the end of the entry for ‘Criticism’.

p. 679, col. 1, l. 10 from bottom: The entry for ‘Möllendorf, Willamowitz’ should read ‘Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Ulrich von’ and be relocated.

p. 695, col. 1, l. 22: For ‘118, 82, 129’ read ‘118, 129’. ‘82’ is a carryover from the earlier index, for content on new p. 118.