Is the general map in 1969 India paper LR the same as in 1st edition?

So my question is, when were ‘R.Adorn’, ‘Swanfleet’, and ‘R.Glandin’ (sic) added to the general map? 1969, 1977 or otherwise?

These names first appeared on the general map in the 1969 Allen & Unwin one-volume (India paper) edition, though Swanfleet and the Glanduin were wrongly associated there with the Isen.

Descriptive Bibliography p144 describes it as "Maps as for A5e", and A5e entry says "Maps drawn by Christopher Tolkien, as for A5a except with revision to Shire map". So it appears the general map would be the same as in 1st edition.

I was incorrect in stating that the maps in the India paper edition are "as for A5e", having overlooked the additions written in tiny script. In my working copy of the Bibliography I added a note to "as for A5e", "+ additions".

Tolkien's reference in his letter to Paul Bibire to "the new edition to appear at the end of this year" was to the 1969 one-volume Allen & Unwin hardcover, printed on India paper.

Paul Bibire's question about the River Glanduin and the Swanfleet led Tolkien to write The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor and in general to think about the landscape of Middle-earth. At the same time, he gave Pauline Baynes information for her poster Map of Middle-earth, commissioned in May 1969, writing notes on a copy of the original general map (now in the Bodleian). Among these notes were the names Adorn, Swanfleet, and Glanduin. Baynes added them to her map (published by Allen & Unwin in 1970) as directed, but made the second of the labels "R. Swanfleet" after Tolkien did not make it clear that "Swanfleet river" refers to the river (Glanduin) flowing into the Swanfleet fens.

Also in 1969, Allen & Unwin prepared and published the India paper Lord of the Rings. It seems that someone on the publisher's staff, seeing the names Adorn, Swanfleet, and Glanduin supplied to Pauline Baynes, added them to the general map being reprinted for the new edition, apparently without consulting Tolkien or otherwise being checked. The new labels are in a passable imitation of Christopher Tolkien's lettering, but "Swanfleet" is misplaced and "Glanduin" is both misplaced and misspelled "Glandin". As far as I can tell, these errors remained in the map (unnoticed?) in reprints of the India paper LR until the map was replaced by Christopher's West of Middle-earth map made for Unfinished Tales in 1980.

The first Folio Society edition, with redrawn maps, appeared in 1977, three years before Unfinished Tales was published. The Folio Society's general map was evidently based on the map in the India paper edition, as it has "Glandin" and the Glanduin is misplaced. The (endpaper) map was presumably too small for the artist to include "Swanfleet".

Wayne

Thank you for the definitive answer, Wayne!

A tiny quibble about Swanfleet. On the general map annotated by Tolkien & Baynes (Maker item 172), Tolkien did mark the lower part of Glanduin as Swanfleet and noted:

* marshes should be indicated about the junction of Swanfleet (III 263) and Hoarwell. The upper part of R. Swanfleet is called [a rejected name] Glanduin (Boundary River) III 319. Apply Swanfleet only to lower part & if possible place R. Glanduin near mountains.