It's not quite as simple as the changes between editions in The Hobbit (which are detailed in The Annotated Hobbit by Douglas A. Anderson), because the UK edition and the US hardcover and paperback each went off on their own track and weren't put back together again for over 20 years, and except for replacing the author's foreword, most of the changes were very small; there was much less changed than in The Hobbit.
Most of the major changes are discussed in Hammond & Scull's LotR: A Reader's Companion, though they aren't separated out from other matters. (May I ask what you found deficient about this book? It's not intended as a work of criticism, but as the annotations for a hypothetical Annotated LotR.)
The changes are listed in full in Hammond's J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography, but in crabbed and hard-to-decipher detail. Also that book is not easily available and is very expensive, though some academic libraries have it.
There is one article that I know of discussing the artistic effect of those changes, and it is by, er, me. It was published in a book called The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder, from Marquette University Press and edited, once again, by Hammond and Scull. I think it's a good book with a lot of interesting articles, but if you just want that one, I could provide an electronic copy. (Don't tell anyone, but I could also supply some photocopies from the Hammond bibliography.)
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Date: 2008-09-23 07:30 pm (UTC)Most of the major changes are discussed in Hammond & Scull's LotR: A Reader's Companion, though they aren't separated out from other matters. (May I ask what you found deficient about this book? It's not intended as a work of criticism, but as the annotations for a hypothetical Annotated LotR.)
The changes are listed in full in Hammond's J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography, but in crabbed and hard-to-decipher detail. Also that book is not easily available and is very expensive, though some academic libraries have it.
There is one article that I know of discussing the artistic effect of those changes, and it is by, er, me. It was published in a book called The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder, from Marquette University Press and edited, once again, by Hammond and Scull. I think it's a good book with a lot of interesting articles, but if you just want that one, I could provide an electronic copy. (Don't tell anyone, but I could also supply some photocopies from the Hammond bibliography.)