Eileen Elgar 5 March 1964

Eileen Elgar 5 March 1964 is a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Mrs Eileen Elgar, written on March 5, 1964.

• Contents: The letter is a reply to Mrs Elgar's questions concerning some poems from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book. Tolkien also encloses the manuscript 'Kinship of the Half-elven'.^[1][2]
• Authenticity: High
• Publication: Sotheby's English Literature and English History 6-7 December 1984. An excerpt from the letter, concerning the poem "Fastitocalon", was published as letter 255 in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.

References

1. ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology, p. 617
2. ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, Forum post 13/Aug/2010 at 5:53pm, at Lotrplaza.com, as of 22 August 2010