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Guide to Tolkien's Letters

Letters written by J.R.R. Tolkien: 1536 Carpenter's Letters: 354 Revised Letters: 508 New in Revised Letters: 154 Updated in Revised Letters: 46 By J.R.R. Tolkien but not in Letters: 1028 Letters to J.R.R. Tolkien: 673 Not to or from J.R.R. Tolkien: 530 All letters: 2739 Recent additions

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1952

J.R.R. Tolkien to George Sayer

Tolkien has lent the first half of The Lord of the Rings to George Sayer and wants to meet him to lend him the only copy of the second half. He is also ...

1953

J.R.R. Tolkien to George Sayer

Tolkien opens this letter by immediately apologising for using his typewriter. He is having trouble with his hand and is resting it. George had asked To...

1967

George Allen & Unwin to Press

Press release from GA&U about Smith of Wootton Major, The Road Goes Ever On and the vinyl record The Poems and Songs of Middle-earth.

The Fall of Gondolin: Deluxe (UK, HB)

On This Day

Carpenter #304: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Clyde S. Kilby • 4 June 1968 (#677)

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Jun 7 The Hobbit (Greg Banks) Olympia Family Theater 612 4th Ave E Olympia, WA 98501 (USA Event)

Jun 6-28 The Hobbit (Greg Banks) Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse, 499 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30308 (USA Event)

Jun 11 Tolkien and his Medieval Sources - Larissa Tracy (Online Event)

Jun 11 “Charting Faërie: Cartography as the Threshold of Enchantment” - Violeta De Frutos (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Sophia Sheppard Room Magdalen College Oxford OX1 4AU (UK Event)

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