Galley proofs of "The Lord of the Rings" corrected by Tolkien.

Tolkien is making a change in the English text in tengwar on the title page. He first wrote the word "seen" as pronounced _siin_ but later decided to write it _seen_ in tengwar instead.

I do believe Tolkien was 'afraid' that readers would not like his habit of writing English phonetically.

"as seen by the Hobbits" is the 'key' to understand the story line of "The Lord of the Rings".

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