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TCG Letter #288

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Charles Blackwood

Date

3 May 1957

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Transcript

Complete

A letter to a young fan named Charles Blackwood. Discusses runes, Tolkien remarks that he did not invent the runes in The Hobbit.

Notes

See https://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/n ... php?topic_id=4043&start=0 for more details.

On This Day

Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to The New York Times Book Review • 5 June 1955 (#1016)

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