Talk:Hobgoblins

In my edition, the citation is : "goblins, hobgoblins, and rest of the worst description." not "orcs of worst" ; is it an old edition ? —Unsigned comment by Erendis (talk • contribs).

I don't have every revision of The Hobbit to hand, but I dug out The Annotated Hobbit (1988) and it suggests that the original text from the 1937 edition was "goblins, hobgoblins, and orcs of the worst description." My digital copy of the 50th anniversary edition by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (with 1987 Foreword by CJRT and 2001 Note on the Text by Douglas A. Anderson) has the "orcs" phrasing. I have also seen the "rest" phrasing floating about in various digital editions of questionable provenance, but I don't know when this change was made to the text, or by whom, deliberately or no, nor do I know when it was reverted. What edition do you have? --Mord 18:50, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

A "digital edition of questionable provenance" I guess ^^ Thank you for your answer :) —Unsigned comment by Erendis (talk • contribs).

It really seems that this is a text corrector artefact, "orcs" becoming "rest" ;The Annotated Hobbit (édition de 2002, note 11 p. 188.) has : "This is the only appearance of the word orc (other than in the sword name Orcrist) original to the first edition of The Hobbit (1937)." So orcs IS the real word. Erendis 11:47, 3 May 2022 (UTC)