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Carpenter's Letter #279
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TCG Letter #279
/ Carpenter Letter #316
From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Robert Burchfield
Date
11 September 1970
Type
Typed Letter Signed
Transcript
Complete
Tolkien discusses an O.E.D. dictionary definition of
Hobbit
.
Tags
Oxford English Dictionary
Hobbits
Tolkien Papers, Bodleian Library
Middle-earth
Archive holdings
References
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981)
, p. 404-05, p. 453 (Carpenter motes)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK)
, pp. 468-69, p. 635 (Carpenter notes)
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017)
, p. 788
Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many
, p. 287n42
J.R.R. Tolkien A Descriptive Bibliography
, Di1, p. 350
See also Correspondence between J.R.R. Tolkien and R.W. Burchfield
Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien
, pp. 577-8, p. 646 (notas de Carpenter)
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