TCG Letter #30 / Carpenter Letter #26

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Stanley Unwin

Date

4 March 1938

Type

Unknown

Transcript

Partial

Tolkien writes to Stanley Unwin about C.S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet and gives him an update on progress with the sequel to The Hobbit.^{The Lord of the Rings[1]} He also mentions a letter in The Observer from 'Habit'

¹ The Lord of the Rings ↩

Tags

The Hobbit sequel

C. S. Lewis

The Lord of the Rings

Middle-earth

Out of the Silent Planet

Related Letters

Carpenter #29: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Stanley Unwin • 25 July 1938 (#33)

Letter from Stanley Unwin to J.R.R. Tolkien • 2 March 1938 (#2137)

Carpenter #22: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to C.A. Furth • 4 February 1938 (#25)

Letter from G.H. White to J.R.R. Tolkien • 18 January 1938 (#2024)

References

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), pp. 32-35, p. 436 (Carpenter notes)

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK), pp. 42-45, p. 610 (Carpenter notes)

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 228

J.R.R. Tolkien A Descriptive Bibliography, A2b (quoted from), p. 20; Di1, p. 350

Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 54-7, p. 619 (notas de Carpenter)

The Ring of Words, pp. 202-3 (unattributed reference to 'eye-splitting')

J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend, see pp. 47-8 for more information on details of The Lord of the Rings production period

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