In a discussion w/two other TORN people we came across a particular sentence
that appeared in my Ballentine paperback edition of FOTR that didn't appear in
a Houghton-Mufflin(?) paperback and a paperback published recently with a movie
cover. I wonder if anyone else has realized this difference? Here's the
sentence:
In the Shadow of the Past chapter when Gandalf recites to Frodo was is engraved
on the One Ring, my Ballentine paperback has Gandalf reciting the two middle
verses of the Ring poem as being engraved on the Ring:
"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
In the HM paperback and movie edition paperback, the first line is
omitted, and Gandalf recites only the second line "One Ring to bring them
all and in the darkness bind them" as being engraved.
One of the two individuals went and checked her Ballentine hardcover and found
the first line to be kept, as on mine. We did not look further and
compare what is read at the Council of Elrond, but I checked later and found it
to be the same as in my earlier chapter: Gandalf read the two lines as he had
in the Shadow chapter.
Has anyone found this themselves? Any explanations? Has anyone found any other
discrepancies between published editions? We were all amazed at this, of course
first thinking that we were all remembering incorrectly. But then actually
found the editions to be different (in such a key thing,
too!)
"...and that first hour in which he shone, the white glimmer of a silver dawn..." "And the bright stars shone as silver fires." "...a pale flame on the wings of a storm."
"Red as blood shone their swords."
