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TCG Letter #667 / Carpenter Letter #294

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Charlotte and Denis Plimmer

Date

8 February 1967

Type

Unknown

Transcript

Partial

The Plimmers had recently interviewed Tolkien for the Daily Telegraph Magazine, and had now sent him a draft of their article, the finished version of which was published in the issue of 22 March 1968. Tolkien responded with corrections on their draft, and a two page cover letter.

Notes

Two additional paragraphs from the letter are quoted in the 1980 auction catalogue from Biblioctopus (see reference below) not included in Carpenter's Letters.

Tags

A Secret Vice

Anglo-Saxon

C. S. Lewis

E. R. Eddison

Mary Renault

Middle-earth

Physique

Religion

Saruman

The Downfall of Númenor

References

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), pp. 372-78, p. 452 (Carpenter notes)

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK), pp. 524-31, p. 634 (Carpenter notes)

"Precious Stones" - Eorclanstanas, or The Hobbitiana - 1980, Special item (unnumbered) on last page of catalogue

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 271 (entry for 'Summer-?Autumn 1942'), p. 723

The Ring of Words, p. vii, 82, 84

J.R.R. Tolkien A Descriptive Bibliography, Di1, p. 350; Dii44, p. 361; Dii46, p. 361

Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many, p. 287n42

Serendipity Books, Catalogue 39, 1980, item L&M 49

Michael Livingston, "Troy and the Rings:Tolkien and the Medieval Myth of England," Mythlore 32.1 (2013), p. 81

Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 533-41, p. 645 (notas de Carpenter)

Tolkien and the Great War, p. 13 (handwriting)

John William Houghton, "Commedia as Fairy-story: Eucatastrophe and the Loss of Virgil," Mythlore 17, 2 (1990) pp. 29-32. p. 32n8 cites from p. 377 of 'Letters', 1981.

TCG Letter #667 / Carpenter Letter #294

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