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Originally Posted by AlexBell
Funny how an author can spell a name one way in one edition and a different way in another edition.
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Almost certainly not the author but the typesetters. Typesetters were expected to correct typos and errors as they went. (Consider that the typesetters of
The Hobbit in the 1930s took it upon themselves to 'correct' all instances of dwarves to dwarfs in the first galleys!)