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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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The Lord of the Rings
Religion
Orcs
Middle-earth
References
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981)
, p. 355, p. 451 (Carpenter note)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK)
, pp. 495-96, pp. 632-63 (Carpenter note)
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017)
, p. 665
J.R.R. Tolkien A Descriptive Bibliography
, Di1, p. 350
War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
, p. 49
Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien
, p. 505, p. 644 (notas de Carpenter)
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