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TCG Letter #583 / Carpenter Letter #209

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Robert Murray, S.J.

Date

4 May 1958

Type

Unknown

Transcript

Partial

Tolkien discusses philology and the original meaning of words.

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Philology

Old English

Greek

Latin

References

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), pp. 267-70

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 554

Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 396-9

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK), pp. 386-89

Error in hardcover and Kindle editions: it _improbably_ formally related to > it is _probably_ formally related to p. 388

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

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