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TCG Letter #748

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Colin Manlove

Date

8 February 1967

Type

Typed Letter Signed

Transcript

Complete

Tolkien writes about his essay "On Fairy Stories" and says that The Lord of the Rings was meant as a large-scale adult fairy story.

Notes

Quoted in C. N. Manlove's Modern Fantasy: Five Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1975).

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