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TCG Letter #568
From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
L. Sprague de Camp
Date
30 August 1964
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien writes to Lyon Sprague de Camp, he was unimpressed with the volume that had been sent, saying they do not handle nomenclature well.
Notes
Lyon Sprague de Camp, an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, had sent Tolkien a copy of
Swords and Sorcery
, an anthology of heroic fantasy he has edited, with stories by Paul Anderson, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Howard, Henry Kuttner, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, C. L. Moore, and Fritz Leiber.
See
Mythlore 50
for quotes from this letter and Douglas A. Anderson's blog post.
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Fantasy
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References
Tolkien on de Camp's "Swords & Sorcery" Anthology - Douglas A. Anderson
Mythlore 50
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017)
, p. 655
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A.I. Mackay
• 17 July 1971
(#1081)
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