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TCG Letter #642 / Carpenter Letter #269


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
W.H. Auden
Date
12 May 1965
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Auden had asked Tolkien if the notion of the Orcs, an entire race that was irredeemably wicked, was not heretical.
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