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Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (ISBN 0-618-05699-8)
is a selection of J. R. R. Tolkien's letters published in 1981, edited
by his son Christopher Tolkien and the biographer Humphrey Carpenter.
The selection contains 354 letters, dating between October 1914, when
Tolkien was an undergraduate at Oxford, and August 29th, 1973, four
days before his death.
The letters can be roughly divided in four categories:
Personal letters to Edith Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
and his other children,
Letters about Tolkien's career as a professor of Anglo-Saxon
Letters to his publishers at Allen & Unwin explaining his failing
to meet the deadline and related topics
Letters about Middle-earth
The last category is especially of interest to Tolkien fans, as it
provides a lot of information about Middle-earth which cannot be found
anywhere in the works published by Tolkien himself.
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