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Delrond
Rohan
May 30 2015, 11:31am
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Tolkien Letter to William Ready on Antiques Roadshow
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From 1957, the article is a good read. It transcribes the letter and gives it context. Guess I never realized JRRT sold all his TH and LOTR manuscripts to Marquette. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/stories/articles/2015/05/25/tolkien-letter-marquette-university/ Curious to hear the thoughts of some of the more learned Tolkien scholars.
A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
(This post was edited by Delrond on May 30 2015, 11:33am)
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Delrond
Rohan
May 30 2015, 1:20pm
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That this letter has not seen the light of day for a very long time? When I posted this, I wondered if anyone here knew of its existence and its specific content. Nice to hear from you, squire. It has been an overly long period since time and circumstance have brought me back here. Cheers, Delrond
A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
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Ostadan
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Jun 2 2015, 9:17pm
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Some ten or so years later, Tolkien came to dislike Ready because of his book, 'The Tolkien Relation', which he pronounced as 'bogus' in a letter to the Tolkien Society of America (whose members he wished to warn against the book). Ready based much on one visit to JRRT in which, as Tolkien said, he talked mostly about himself.
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