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TCG Letter #4 / Carpenter Letter #4


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Edith Bratt
Date
2 March 1916
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
A short extract where Tolkien mentions his "nonsense fairy language", referring to it as "such a mad hobby!"
Notes
Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull note that in late 1914 "Tolkien begins to create, or continues to work on" Qenya.
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References
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), p. 8, p. 434 (Carpenter note)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK), pp. 4-5, p. 607 (Carpenter note)
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 65 (see entry for Late 1914), p. 85
J.R.R. Tolkien A Descriptive Bibliography, Di1, p. 350
Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 16, p. 615 (notas de Carpenter)
Tolkien and the Great War, p. 125 ('I have been reading up...')
In the Fields and the Trenches: the famous and the forgotten on the battlefields of World War I, pp. 34-5. KL Hollihan, 2016
War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 106


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