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TCG Letter #40
From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Henry Bosley Woolf
Date
9 May 1951
Type
Typed Letter Signed
Transcript
Complete
Touching on poems about dragons, Beowulf, and fellow Inkling C. S. Lewis. This letter to Prof. Henry Bosley Woolf thanks him for sending a copy of a paper he had written on Beowulf. Tolkien also answers a question that seems to have been about a remark he made concerning dragons. He then refers Woolf to a passage in Pilgrim's Regress by C.S. Lewis and slyly recommends one of his own poems, 'Iumonna Gold Galdre Bewunden', without disclosing his authorship.
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