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TCG Letter #279 / Carpenter Letter #316

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Robert Burchfield

Date

11 September 1970

Type

Typed Letter Signed

Transcript

Complete

Tolkien discusses an O.E.D. dictionary definition of Hobbit.

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Middle-earth

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Tolkien Papers, Bodleian Library

References

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), p. 404-05, p. 453 (Carpenter motes)

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK), pp. 468-69, p. 635 (Carpenter notes)

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 788

Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many, p. 287n42

J.R.R. Tolkien A Descriptive Bibliography, Di1, p. 350

The Ring of Words, pp. 143-4

See also Correspondence between J.R.R. Tolkien and R.W. Burchfield

Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 577-8, p. 646 (notas de Carpenter)

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