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TCG Letter #49 / Carpenter Letter #339


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
The Daily Telegraph
Date
30 June 1972 (published 4 July)
Type
Typed Letter
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien writes to the Daily Telegraph newspaper about an editorial which they published on the 29th June 1972. He objects to having his name used as an adjective qualifying "gloom" and gives many examples from The Lord of the Rings to refute that usage.

The letter as printed in the Daily Telegraph differs very slightly from what is quoted in Carpenter's Letters.

A photocopy and complete transcript is held at the Marquette archives.
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