The Typo's forum goes down right before ToM is released, and stays down for a month and a half. This is a slightly expanded version of a post I made to Leigh Butler's Spoiler Thread on Nov. 4th. I haven't finished my slow re-read, so I expect to find A few more whenever I get a round tuit. I haven't posted these to other threads on other forums (& I'm not going to).
Their are so many typo's in this book, that I think TOR's existing proofreaders (the ones who did ToM anyway) should be fired.
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Towers of Midnight, Hardcover, 1st Edition, TOR
Known / Suspected Errata / Typos:
Prologue: Probably not Errata, but Graendal thinks "Dark One" instead of "great lord" a few times.
Chapter 5: Extra Word: Page 104: "rug nearly filled nearly the", should be either "rug filled nearly the" Or "rug nearly filled the".
Chapter 5: Typo: Page 108: "Give this" should probably be "Given this".
Chapter 5: Wrong Word: Page 109: "Gawyn down here". Should be "Gawyn up here".
Chapter 8: Extra Word: page 150: "it had had enough". Should be "it had enough".
Chapter 15: Typo: Page 217: "Her food" Should be "Her foot".
Chapter 19: Anachronism / Out of place Jargon / Terminology: "Technology". "Technology" is not a term that would be used in WoT.
http://dposey.no-ip.com/IdealSeek/IdealSeek.cgi?q=technologyChapter 19: Typo: Page 296: "Tom". Should be "Thom".
Chapter 25: Missing Word: Page 404: "He cut off as [] saw Rand." Should be "He cut off as [he] saw Rand."
Chapter 27: Typo: Page 426: "I h ave". Should be: "I have" OR "I've".
Chapter 29: Slight Errata: Page 481: IIRC Sunlight does not shine in T'A'R, although this scene can very easily be considered special circumstances.
Chapter 31: Typo: Page 492: "consider woman who". Should be: "consider women who".
Chapter 32: Probable Errata: Ituralde thinks/knows the term "Deathgates". AFAICT It doesn't seem like he should know this term, unless his ashaman knew how to do this, which seems unlikely (not knowing who which ashaman he controlled, etc.).
Chapter 33: Missing Word: Page 511: "if I [] become". Should Probably be: "if I['ve] become" OR "if I have become".
Chapter 33: Extra Word: Page 515 "working for straight" Should likely be: "working straight".
Chapter 34: Missing Word: Page 528: "None of the [] Would". Probably "None of the[m] Would".
Chapter 36: Flipped Words: Page 558: "will now not reject". Probably should be: "will not now reject".
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Chapter 37: Major Continuity Error: Pages 571,589: The Text in Towers of Midnight suggest that Carlinya is dead. This Directly contradicts Fires of Heaven: TFOH: 26, Sallie Daera, 317: "a raven floating beside her dark hair; more a drawing of the bird than the bird itself. She thought it was a tattoo...". Min has a viewing of Carlinya becoming Property of the Empress/Seanchan, and this has not happened in the Books (so far). So: Either 1. witnesses are mistaken about seeing Carlinya die, 2. There are huge as-yet-unforseen Balefire effects, or 3. an Error that will need to rectified in future printings.
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Chapter 37: Possible Errata: Pages 571-572. The Text says Amys disappears: "Fade away". But then the next page she is still there. She can't have left the dreamspiked area. She can't have awoken (she wouldn't know of the problem). Nobody else "fades away" or the like when they fail to leave the dreamspiked area.
Chapter 37: Missing Word: Page 574: "Position he [] been". Should be: "Position he['d] been" OR "Position he [had] been".
Chapter 38: Pages 591-2: This might not be an error, but Egwene's thoughts about the war of the shadow and Messana's life are somewhat wrong. We know from the BBoBA & various snippets that the war of power was not some short brutal affair like Egwene implies, but rather a long drawn out affair that lasted over a hundred years, slowly building momentum to crescendo.
Chapter 40: Page 613: Probably not an error, but Perrin never quenches his Hammer. This is odd because he is mostly unaware of the special weaves being incorporated into the metal & it is an important part of setting the crystalline structure of the metal & it's various properties. (Not suggesting that quenching is required of power wrot items, but that Perrin acts out of character for a blacksmith.)
Chapter 42: Wrong Name: Page 639: "Galad said." Should be "Gawyn said.".
Chapter 45: Wrong Name: Page 669: "Still, Egwene would". Should be: "Still, Elayne would".
Chapter 45: Page 675: Not an error, but Aviendha's thoughts seemingly imply that people lived in Rhuidean before rand came along, which IIRC, only happened after rand.
Chapter 50: Missing Word: Page 743: "west of [] realm". Should be: "west of [the] realm".
Chapter 52: Typo: Page 762: "started, the stepped". Should be: "started, then stepped".
Chapter 53: Missing Word: Page 777: "gateway [] more". Should be: "gateway [was] more".
Chapter 53: Extra Word: Page 784: "It was set up a little too high up to feel natural." Could be: "It was set a little too high up to feel natural." OR "It was set up a little too high to feel natural."
Chapter 53: Wrong Word: Page 787: "straps crossed the". Seems like this should be: "straps across the".
Chapter 56: Typo: Page 819: "black-coated man stood". Should be: "black-coated men stood".
Chapter 57: Missing Word: Page 823: "She [] been too". Should be: "She['d] been too" OR "She [had] been too".
Epilogue: Minor Errata: Page 831: Perrin see's Sunlight in T'A'R. IIRC, There is no Sunlight in T'A'R.
Epilogue: Extra Word: Page 839: "Borderlands would couldn't have". Possibly: "borderlands wouldn't have" OR "borderlands couldn't have". Also is "Borderlands" supposed to be capitalized?
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Mat's Whole Timeline is somewhat screwy (see Dragonmount Typos thread). Birgitte + Sword is iffy. Grady & Neald know how to tie off open gateways (see KoD) which makes their inabilities in tGS+ToM weird.
