Most curious about new additons regarding that much damaged soldier Michael.

Great livestream!

I agree. I enjoyed that. Well done all involved.

Huan wrote:

I agree. I enjoyed that. Well done all involved.

Thank you both. That was a lot of fun. We'll do more of these hopefully and some more focused sessions with different people from the community discussing different aspects of letters and Tolkien on general. Tonight was about the letters but we'll have a lot more on the Guide in future get togethers.

Arbor wrote:

How to get the TCG Letters tee?

If there is an interest, I'm sure Urulókë could add them to the Store (https://store.tolkienguide.com/)

Yes plesa add the tee.

It was great listening to you all, a real treat! Thank you everyone !!!

Thanks to all who attended, sorry I had to duck out early...go out and buy yourself two copies now! One for reading and one for display

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Thanks to all who attended, sorry I had to duck out early...go out and buy yourself two copies now! One for reading and one for display

Agreed. Everyone has to buy at least two copies 😁

Thanks to everyone who came along and to our guests. We could have talked all night long until Mr. Underhill returned if time had allowed.

Chatting with Brian Sibley was a real privilege and getting to meet Putri and finally to talk in 'person' with Dr. Sara Brown and Kris Larsen.

Do we know that there are "thousands" of Tolkien letters? I had the impression that Tolkien didn't necessarily like writing letters except that he was very generous with some inquirers about details of Middle-earth, & that he wrote thoughtful letters to his children.

Lots of people read Lewis's books or listened to his broadcasts and wrote to him, and he didn't brush them off even though answering became burdensome. But as a teenager Lewis clearly already loved to write letters (to his friend Arthur Greeves) -- about books, walks, interesting people, music, "philosophy," etc. I can relate to this, by the way, in that shortly before I turned 14 my family moved away and I kept up with my best friend by letters (long distance phone calls were too expensive for being more than a rare treat). I didn't know about Lewis's habit at the time, but felt kinship after I learned about this. But I don't have the sense that Tolkien had friends he wrote to often. For three years he no doubt would have written to Edith frequently but he'd promised Fr. Francis not to.