Format/typo check my Precious (2001/anonymous)

Did you know that in the first edition of The Hobbit Gollum was willing
to give up the ring? It was not the Ruling Ring, the One Ring, the Ring
of Power or anything like that: it was simply a literary device that
could make one invisible. When Bilbo won the famous riddle game Gollum
went to fetch the Ring - not to kill and eat Bilbo but to give it to
him! But Bilbo had already found it just like in the later editions.
Gollum profusely apologised and begged for forgiveness. Bilbo told him
never mind because he would have had it anyway. But he'd let him off on
one condition: that he show him the way out. It was at this point that
Bilbo slipped the ring on and Gollum saw him vanish and understood that
he already found it. But there was no call of thief and no hatred of
Bilbo.

If you want to read the first edition they reprinted it some years back: `The
Hobbit Facsimile First Edition`. The details are also discussed in History of
Middle-earth [HoMe] VI, 'The Return of the Shadow', part one of the
history of 'The Lord of the Rings' of a twelve volume set - as well as in
The History of the Hobbit.

The judges already knew that and now you do too (no, I didn't look it up
just for this .. I have the books and they're delightful)! :-)
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## To use:
```sh
./anonymous
./anonymous 'foo' > bar.pgm
```
Now open the output using your favourite
[pgm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm#PGM_example) viewer. If you don't
have a `pgm` viewer then we suggest the [netpbm
toolkit](https://netpbm.sourceforge.net) to convert the image to a graphics
format that you can view. Most graphical web browsers can display PNG or JPEG
images.
### Try:
```sh
./anonymous "ash nazg durhbatuluhk, ash nazg gimbatul, \
ash nazg thrakatuluhk, agh burzhumh-ishi krimpatul." >anonymous.pgm
ash nazg thrakatuluhk, agh burzhumh-ishi krimpatul." >ring.pgm
./anonymous "My Precious. Yes, my Precious." > precious.pgm
```
NOTE: technically the text is supposed to be in all lower case but the above
still works for demonstration purposes.
## Judges' remarks:
Then view the output using your favourite
[pgm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm#PGM_example) viewer. If you don't
have a `pgm` viewer then we suggest the [netpbm
toolkit](https://netpbm.sourceforge.net) to convert the image to a graphics
format that you can view. Most graphical web browsers can display PNG or JPEG
images.
Did you know that in the first edition of The Hobbit Gollum was willing to give
up the ring? It was not the Ruling Ring, the One Ring, the Ring of Power or
anything like that: it was simply a literary device that could make one
invisible. When Bilbo won the famous riddle game Gollum went to fetch the Ring -
not to kill and eat Bilbo but to give it to him! But Bilbo had already found it
just like in the later editions. Gollum profusely apologised and begged for
forgiveness. Bilbo told him never mind because he would have had it anyway. But
he'd let him off on one condition: that he show him the way out. It was at this
point that Bilbo slipped the ring on and Gollum saw him vanish and understood
that he already found it. But there was no call of thief and no hatred of Bilbo.
If you want to read the first edition they reprinted it some years back: `The
Hobbit Facsimile First Edition`. The details are also discussed in History of
Middle-earth [HoMe] VI, [The Return of the
Shadow](https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Shadow), part one of
the history of The Lord of the Rings of a twelve volume set - as well as in [The
History of the
Hobbit](https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_History_of_The_Hobbit).
p.s. Frodo lives!
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The following command thus writes a rendering of the [Ring
inscription](https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/r/ringinscription.html) to
the file `anonymous.pgm`:
the file `ring.pgm`:
```sh
./anonymous "ash nazg durhbatuluhk, ash nazg gimbatul, \
ash nazg thrakatuluhk, agh burzhumh-ishi krimpatul." >anonymous.pgm
ash nazg thrakatuluhk, agh burzhumh-ishi krimpatul." >ring.pgm
```
The source code assumes the ASCII character set; also, due to space