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'''Ken Jackson 29 January 1968''' is a [[Letters not published in "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien"|letter]] from [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] to Ken Jackson, written on [[29 January]] [[1968]].<ref name=CG>{{CG|C}}, p. 716</ref> | '''Ken Jackson 29 January 1968''' is a [[Letters not published in "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien"|letter]] from [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] to Ken Jackson, written on [[29 January]] [[1968]].<ref name=CG>{{CG|C}}, p. 716</ref> | ||
Revision as of 22:57, 30 March 2014
Ken Jackson 29 January 1968 is a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Ken Jackson, written on 29 January 1968.[1]
- Subject: Reply to a reader, concerning permission to name his house "Bag End". Tolkien comments that he did not invent the name; Bag End was the local name for the house of his Aunt Jane Neave.[1]
- Publication: A small excerpt was published by Colin Duriez in J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, p. 455.
Excerpt
Bag End [was] an old tumbledown manor house at the end of an untidy lane that led nowhere else
External links
- The excerpt is also found on the online version of J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment on GoogleBooks.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 716
