TCG Letter #9 / Carpenter Letter #9

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Susan Dagnall

Date

4 January 1937

Type

Autograph Letter Signed, Manuscript/Proof Document

Transcript

Complete

Tolkien details work he has recently completed on maps for The Hobbit, as well as other suggestions.

Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull note that there are six pictures enclosed which are Mirkwood, The Elvenking's Gate, Lake Town, and The Front Gate.^{See Artist and Illustrator, figs. 88, 121, 127, 130; Art of The Hobbit, figs. 47, 58, 66, 68. Hammond/Scull note further that "Lake Town is based on an earlier drawing, Esgaroth (Artist and Illustrator, fig. 126; Art of The Hobbit, fig. 65)."[1]}

This letter is held at the Tolkien-George Allen & Unwin archive, HarperCollins.

¹ See Artist and Illustrator, figs. 88, 121, 127, 130; Art of The Hobbit, figs. 47, 58, 66, 68. Hammond/Scull note further that "Lake Town is based on an earlier drawing, Esgaroth (Artist and Illustrator, fig. 126; Art of The Hobbit, fig. 65)." ↩

Tags

Maps

The Hobbit

Hobbit art

Tolkien-George Allen & Unwin archive, HarperCollins

Middle-earth

Publishing

Archive holdings

Related Letters

Carpenter #10: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to C.A. Furth • 17 January 1937 (#10)

References

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), p. 14

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK), pp. 14-15

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 203

J.R.R. Tolkien A Descriptive Bibliography, A2 (quoted from), p. 10; Di1, p. 350

J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, figs. 88, 121, 127, 130

A complete photocopy of this letter was included in a 1987 press packet sent to a Blackwell's executive

Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 26-7

The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Updated, p. 14

The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, figs. 47, 58, 66, 68

This letter is ALS but also contained manuscript/proof documents. "In 1937 alone Tolkien wrote 26 letters to George Allen & Unwin and received 31 letters in return. On Tolkien’s part these were all in handwriting...", Remembrancer, p. 75

J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend, p. 47 (see items 88-98 for further details)

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