: : : 2 Examples of 'errors'. Now I don't personally believe that any error delibertate or otherwise could take anything away from the books or mythology created, the fact remains however that even the greatest literary minds cannot be 100% perfect or notice everything.
: : : Anyone else got any clangers that the prof dropped in his time??
: : : Don Q

: : I'll leave the clanger hunting to someone else. However, I believe Tolkien was just as much of a prefectionist as any of us. We want people to understand what we are saying and what we mean. Unfortunately, we often make and overlook little mistakes that completely skew the meaning of our posts. Our posts are usually short. Imagine what Tolkien had to deal with while writing LOTR. Not only was he writing a new story, but was incorporating elements from other stories.
: : ~Aelmer

: OK, all the answers given me are banging on about typos and 'give the guy a rest' and it being someone elses fault. If you read my post I said quite implicitly that errors do NOT take anything away from the books or his genius, and I only used what I had been reading as an intro to a question that I had wondered about.....

: The examples that I gave are of author errors or oversights and I think are interesting to identify and discuss - so does anyone want to contribute to a discussion on inconsistencies and errors in the books?
: I would also be very interested in any thoughts/knowledge on the Bladorthin question
: Don Q

Given the subject of your post, I thought it concerned Tolkien being a perfectionist. I agreed that Tolkien wasn't a perfectionist, at least not more than most of us. I pointed out that we make mistakes in our posts, and they are no way as complicated as what Tolkien was dealing with. That's what I said. I didn't mention typos, it being someone else's fault or leave the guy alone.
~Aelmer