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TCG Letter #2247


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
?Unknown
Date
?Late 1968*
Type
Draft
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien drafts a reply to a letter on the subject of Tom Bombadil and Treebeard. He says that Tom Bombadil is best left a mystery. He gives details on some word origin, Forn and Orald being of Scandinavian origin and that Orald is an Old English word meaning "very ancient".
Notes
In correspondence with Hammond and Scull it is noted that this draft letter is connected to their entry of 17 August 1968.See Chronology, p. 767, and also ?Late August 1968, p. 768[1] . Private correspondence can only date this draft letter to late 1968, but it is not earlier than late August given Tolkien received a letter which his draft was in reply to.
1 See Chronology, p. 767, and also ?Late August 1968, p. 768 ↩
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