HarperCollins are releasing a revised and expanded edition of Humphrey Carpenter's Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien in November, with ~150 new letters and additional material restored to existing letters, but Tolkien wrote far more letters than that. A team at TolkienGuide has been building a tool that documents known letters to, from and about J. R. R. Tolkien. With more than a thousand already indexed and more being added all the time, it is meant to be a powerful research tool for collectors and scholars. The Guide to Tolkien's Letters will help you discover letters of interest, and where to find out more. Which archive holds the original letter? What is the letter about? Where has the letter been quoted or reproduced?
The corpus of known Tolkien's letters is vast, but references have been spread across hundreds of books, catalogues and archives. Join Trotter, Mr. Underhill, onthetrail and Urulókë this Friday as we talk about the Guide to Tolkien's Letters, what it does and doesn't do, how to use it effectively, and how we plan to expand and improve it in the coming months.
We'll of course also chat about all we know and can share about the new HarperCollins edition of Letters as well.
Great,exciting project. For some years now I've been building my own library of unpublished/expanded Tolkien letters and I'm the proud owner of a few original letter
Great,exciting project. For some years now I've been building my own library of unpublished/expanded Tolkien letters and I'm the proud owner of a few original letter
Excellent Olorin. We drew much of the letters guide through our own libraries of letters and married up what we all had, worked out the summaries, gathered links etc from the collected information. We will talk a little about how people can help us if they have letters and information we do not.
Thanks to all of you for your hard work on this project! The livestream event went great, and it's an awesome idea and looks extremely useful. I did a short write-up on the project and livestream event on my blog to share with folks: https://thoughtsontolkien.wordpress.co ... uide-to-tolkiens-letters/
Looking forward to exploring the Guide more in the days to come. Great job!
Thanks to all of you for your hard work on this project! The livestream event went great, and it's an awesome idea and looks extremely useful. I did a short write-up on the project and livestream event on my blog to share with folks: https://thoughtsontolkien.wordpress.co ... uide-to-tolkiens-letters/
Looking forward to exploring the Guide more in the days to come. Great job!
That is a wonderful review, thank you ever so much.
Thanks to all of you for your hard work on this project! The livestream event went great, and it's an awesome idea and looks extremely useful. I did a short write-up on the project and livestream event on my blog to share with folks: https://thoughtsontolkien.wordpress.co ... uide-to-tolkiens-letters/
Looking forward to exploring the Guide more in the days to come. Great job!
Thanks, I think that is a great summary of the project, thank you for writing it
Thank you for this wonderful tool which will help a vast range of researchers and contributors, fans, readers peoples interested by Tolkien's life and work. Truly amazing.
I missed the livestream but saw the recording. Thanks for your work onthetrail, Trotter, Mr. Underhill and Urulókë. This is a great tool not only for scholars but also those of us who just like to read and learn what there is to read and learn about the Professor, his works and his life.
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