Talk:14 February

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Mirror and Gandalf

In my version of the Appendix B of "The Return of the King" the two events in Arda happen at the 15th of February 3019. But at tuckborough.net they happen like here at the 14th. What's right? -- Eldarion Telcontar 12:50, 12 May 2008 (EDT)

My copy says 14th. -- Ederchil 13:01, 12 May 2008 (EDT)
Very odd... I have the black 3 Book Box set from Harpercollins. Because I have nowhere else found the 15th the 14th will be right. -- Eldarion Telcontar 13:53, 12 May 2008 (EDT)
This is a correction in the 50th Anniversary edition, and in the 2005 version of that only (so not in the DeLuxe, or the HC hardbound one volume editions). Hammond and Scull explain in the Reader's Companion on p. 718, why the dating of Galadriel's mirror has to be corrected from 14th to 15th, but they do not explain Why Gandalf's return to life has to be moved with it. -- Mithrennaith 20:06, 14 May 2008 (EDT)
Well, what shall we write now? The old dating from Tolkien or the surely well thought out corrections of the newer edition? I think we can at least correct the dating of Galadriel's mirror to 15th because the corrections were made by Tolkien himself or his son, weren't they? -- Eldarion Telcontar 17:37, 15 May 2008 (EDT)