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The '''Book of the Foxrook''' is a manuscript by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], likely composed around [[10 June]] [[1909]] (this date was added to the title-page).<ref>{{CG|C}}, p. 15</ref> | The '''Book of the Foxrook''' is a manuscript by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], likely composed around [[10 June]] [[1909]] (this date was added to the title-page).<ref>{{CG|C}}, p. 15</ref> | ||
Revision as of 17:58, 5 March 2013
The Book of the Foxrook is a manuscript by J.R.R. Tolkien, likely composed around 10 June 1909 (this date was added to the title-page).[1]
It consists of a 16-page notebook containing "the key to a secret code consisting of a rune-like phonetic alphabet and a sizable number of ideographic symbols". The book also contains comments on Esperanto.[2]
The existence of this manuscript was apparently first mentioned by Humphrey Carpenter in his J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (p. 37).[2] A page from the Book of the Foxrook was reproduced in the exhibition catalogue Tolkien: Life and Legend. An analysis and transcription of the same page appeared in the article "Tolkien and Esperanto" (cf. pp. 29-34), published in SEVEN, Volume 17.
The Book of the Foxrook is kept at the Bodleian Library (Family papers 1/29(3), fol. 1r).[2]
References
- ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 15
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Arden R. Smith, Patrick Wynne, "Tolkien and Esperanto", in SEVEN, Volume 17, p. 29
