Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien ( English The Letters of JRR Tolkien ) are selected letters of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien , a famous English writer. The book was published in 1981 under the editorship of Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien . It included 354 letters written from October 1914 to August 29, 1973 (4 days before the author’s death).
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Author | J. R. R. Tolkien , Edited by Humphrey Carpenter |
Original language | English |
Original issued | 1981 |
Translator | K. Korolev (Selected Letters) S. Likhachev (Letters) |
Publisher | Boston: Houghton Mifflin |
Pages | 463 |
ISBN | 0-395-31555-7 |
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Categories
Letters can be attributed to one of four categories:
- personal letters addressed to his wife Edith , son Christopher and his other children;
- letters related to his career as a professor of Old English ;
- letters to its publishers;
- letters about Middle-earth .
Links
- The Letters of JRR Tolkien (English) in the Tolkien Library