TCG Letter #1009

Tolkien writes to Stanley Unwin, including a letter he received from a Mlle Tardivel^[1] who had written asking about a possible French translation of The Hobbit. Tolkien suggests that Simonne d’Ardenne would make a suitable translator who has already translated Farmer Giles of Ham into French.^{Wayne G. Hammond's A Descriptive Bibliography notes that Simonne d'Ardenne had translated an earlier draft of Farmer Giles of Ham.[2]}