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Guide to Tolkien's Letters

Letters written by J.R.R. Tolkien: 1365 Carpenter's Letters: 354 Revised Letters: 508 New in Revised Letters: 154 Updated in Revised Letters: 46 By J.R.R. Tolkien but not in Letters: 857 Letters to J.R.R. Tolkien: 484 Not to or from J.R.R. Tolkien: 388 All letters: 2236 Recent additions

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1944

J.R.R. Tolkien to Christopher Tolkien

Carpenter #76

Tolkien discusses the name Sam Gamgee, agreeing with Christopher's opinion and explaining the choice to emphasize the character's comic, peasantry, and ...

1954

4 November 1954

J.R.R. Tolkien to Father Robert Murray

Carpenter #156

Tolkien addresses several topics related to The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien discusses the characters Smeagol and Gandalf (including the nature of the Ist...

1956

J.R.R. Tolkien to Rosfrith Murray

Tolkien begins with apologies for his late reply, he has been very busy with work, staying up very late even. He says he has knows nothing about drama a...

1973

J.R.R. Tolkien to Mrs Jeronimides

Tolkien offers advice on translating the Hobbit into Italian. He suggests borrowing words from English and making them sound like Italian words i.e. 'tr...

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