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communicated to me the curious fact that in the Plan of
Shelob's Lair reproduced in The War of the Ring, p. 201, my
father's compass-points 'N' and 'S' are reversed. Frodo and Sam
were of course moving eastward in the tunnel, and the South
was on their right. In my description (p. 200, lines 16 and 20) I
evidently followed the compass-points without thinking, and so
carelessly wrote of the 'southward' instead of the 'northward'
tunnels that left the main tunnel near its eastern end.