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** A book erroneously titled ''The Anime Encyclopedia'' not only fell under this trope, they leaped under its wheels like [[Urban Legend|crazed Krishna worshippers beneath a juggernaut.]]

* A popular history book described ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' as being the work of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]. Um...''no'', although Tolkien once mentioned he 'rather liked' the ''Conan'' stories.

** The ''Writer's Almanac'' daily email celebrated [[J. R. R. Tolkien|J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s birthday in 2006 with a lengthy and loving tribute ... in which they said that ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' was "the story of Bilbo Baggins, a lowly hobbit who sets out on a quest to destroy a magic ring." As one commenter on [http://misssnark.blogspot.com Miss Snark] put it, "For Bilbo, it was a short quest." (In fact, Tolkien [[What Could Have Been|at one point considered]] making Bilbo the protagonist of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', but it would have contradicted too strongly the ending of ''[[The Hobbit]]'', which said that Bilbo lived [[Happily Ever After]].)

** The ''Writer's Almanac'' daily email celebrated [[J. R. R. Tolkien|J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s birthday in 2006 with a lengthy and loving tribute ... in which they said that ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' was "the story of Bilbo Baggins, a lowly hobbit who sets out on a quest to destroy a magic ring." As one commenter on [https://web.archive.org/web/20210211072143/http://misssnark.blogspot.com/ Miss Snark] put it, "For Bilbo, it was a short quest." (In fact, Tolkien [[What Could Have Been|at one point considered]] making Bilbo the protagonist of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', but it would have contradicted too strongly the ending of ''[[The Hobbit]]'', which said that Bilbo lived [[Happily Ever After]].)

* [[Terry Pratchett]] and [[Neil Gaiman]] were interviewed for the book ''[[Good Omens]]'' by a New York radio presenter who hadn't quite figured out that the book was fictional. The interviewer hadn't read the book, and was probably just given some cards with notes on them by an assistant. The presenter thought it was a book about the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter. (Which it is, but she never existed.) Sort of as if Gaiman and Pratchett had written a book about Nostradamus.

* ''The Metro'', when doing a piece on the town of Wincanton, home of the Discworld Emporium, who had gotten two new roads named Peach Pie Street and Treacle Mine Road, offered a "comprehensive guide to the diskworld". Yes, with a "k". It then went on to compare Ankh-Morpork to London, listing the disc's newspaper as "The Truth Newspaper". Because that was the title of the book in which the ''Ankh-Morpork Times'' was introduced, and somebody couldn't even be bothered to read the freaking ''blurb''.