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TCG Letter #439 / Carpenter Letter #346

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Lyle Leach

Date

13 December 1972

Type

Unknown

Transcript

Partial

Tolkien expounds upon Gandalf's statement "He that breaks a thing to find out what it is have left the path of wisdom" when responding to someones "destructive" analysis.

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