Huan wrote:

I have, 17 The Scouring of the Shire, 17 The Grey Havens. Is that what you meant?

The errata format used here is

What the published book says > the corrected version it should say

So Trotter's post means that The Grey Havens is published as plate 17, but it should in fact be labeled as plate 18 (as you note, 17 is already claimed by The Scouring of the Shire).

Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I’ve not actually gone through mine yet, just noticed the plate listings.

Big thanks to LaDonna Barr for spotting this!

In the 2020 hardcover edition of Unfinished Tales (illustrated by Howe, Lee and Nasmith), in footnote 40 in the chapter "Cirion and Eorl" (DigitalTolkien beta citation: UT 3.02.notes.40.001) p. 336

The letters were [  ] ( L ND L) > The letters were [  ] (L ND L)

Note the middle tengwa should be 'ando'  but in this edition was mistakenly changed to 'umbar' .


Checking other editions shows that this error was introduced in the 2020 illustrated hardcover edition, and also now appears in the latest paperback (signature series) as well (thanks to James Tauber for checking recent paperbacks). The 2024 boxed set of The History of Middle-earth does not contain this error, as it was photo reproduced from the first edition rather than using the new setting.

Humorously, I checked my 2022 Portuguese edition out of curiosity, and they appear to have a unicode/font issue!

Thanks for your message Urulókë, because with it, I discover that no French translation has this transcription in tengwar (and I never knew that there was one in the original text).