_Annotated Hobbit_, second edition

Douglas Anderson's The Annotated Hobbit was reissued last month in a second edition. In this new edition, Anderson has greatly expanded the note on "warg" that cites a letter of J.R.R. Tolkien to Gene Wolfe; the new text contains a brief appreciation of Wolfe's work and of the significance of Wolfe's interest in words related to his surname. The note is printed on pp. 146-147 of the new edition. -- Dan Rabin