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TCG Letter #748


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Colin Manlove
Date
8 February 1967
Type
Typed Letter Signed
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Tolkien writes about his essay "On Fairy Stories" and says that The Lord of the Rings was meant as a large-scale adult fairy story.

Quoted in C. N. Manlove's Modern Fantasy: Five Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1975).
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