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TCG Letter #531 / Carpenter Letter #182


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Date
?Late June or July 1956
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien hoped that he would be able to publish parts of The SilmarillionThe Silmarillion. John M. Bowers in Tolkien's Lost Chaucer, p. 3, notes that "when... he admitted his Silmarillion was full of ‘all that “heigh stile” (as Chaucer might say)’, he was remembering a phrase from the Clerk’s Prologue.[1] After the success of The Lord of the Rings he hoped it may be reconsidered.

1 The Silmarillion. John M. Bowers in Tolkien's Lost Chaucer, p. 3, notes that "when... he admitted his Silmarillion was full of ‘all that “heigh stile” (as Chaucer might say)’, he was remembering a phrase from the Clerk’s Prologue.
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