Mass Market Paperback
1980 – A Tolkien Compass (Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings) – Random House Paperback Edition – Mass Market Paperback – Random House Publishing Group
Contains an essay titled “Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings”. It has in the first three editions of the book but removed from later editions. Tolkien originally wrote this guide to assist translators of The Lord of the Rings. He was reacting to some early foreign editions (specifically the first Dutch