Discuss

Collect

Events

Important links:

Guide to Tolkien's Letters
(Nominated for 2026 Tolkien Society Award)
-
Guide to Tolkien Calendars
-
Winner of the 2019 Tolkien Society award for Best Website

Letters

Back to results

Next Previous

TCG Letter #422 / Carpenter Letter #328

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Carole Batten-Phelps

Date

Autumn 1971

Type

Draft

Transcript

Partial

Tolkien talks about The Lord of the Rings and confesses that he feels it no longer belongs to him.

Tags

Edith health

Elves

Fairy Stories

Gandalf

Middle-earth

Oxford

The Lord of the Rings

References

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK), pp. 578-80, p. 635 (Carpenter note)

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), pp. 412-14, p. 453 (Carpenter note)

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 794

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

Tolkien Estate where this letter can be read freely.

Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 587-9, p. 647 (notas de Carpenter)

Next Previous

Great Tales of Middle-earth Box Set: The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, The Fall of Gondolin

On This Day

Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Mr Welland • 29 June 1972 (#1343)

Events

Jun 29 Tolkien Society Big Read - The Lord of the Rings, Book 2, part 1 - Kristine Larsen These are free but you must be a Tolkien Society member to attend. (Online Event)

Jul 1 Bonhams Online Auction (Online Auction)

Jul 2-5 Metropol Con Berlin - Marcel Bülles silent green Kulturquartier, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin (Germany Event)

Jul 4 The Magic of Middle Earth until 27th September Bewdley Museum, Load Street, Bewdley, DY12 2AE (UK Event)

More...

Recent Posts

Hardback Special edition of The Fall of Númenor: and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth

EmilK replied
4 hours ago

Sotheby's Auction July 9 2026 - inc. items from the library of Eileen Elgar

onthetrail replied
6 hours ago

Trotter's old tat

Trotter replied
10 hours ago

Festival Art and Books still claiming HarperCollins used forged Christopher Tolkien signatures

Mr. Underhill replied
22 hours ago

Fake or real autograph of Christopher Tolkien

The late Stu replied
27 June

New eBay listings submitted

3439

Mr. Underhill replied
27 June

Interesting listings

5444

Mr. Underhill replied
27 June

Great Tales Deluxe Edition

Gerontius Took replied
26 June

Tolkien Letter for Auction at Christies

Mr. Underhill replied
26 June

Tolkien Audiobooks

Urulókë replied
25 June

More...

Jump to Last