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{{letter infobox
| #=73
| to=[[Christopher Tolkien]]
| date=[[1944#June|June 10]], [[1944]]
| subject=Allusion to D-Day, Inklings report, a home-town incident, African memories
}}{{Letter|73}}
==Summary==
Tolkien reported that a great deal had happened at his end of the world.<ref group="notes">Four days before the invasion of Normandy had begun.</ref> He expected that Christopher knew as much as he did, except that Tolkien mentioned that the weather seemed to be clearing up, which he fancied was of paramount importance.

Tolkien had met with [[C.S. Lewis]], [[Warren Lewis]], [[Charles Williams]], and [[Wikipedia:Eric Rücker Eddison|E.R. Eddison]]. W. Lewis had read a long chapter on the system of government in the ancien régime of France, which he had made very amusing. Eddison had read from an uncompleted romance.<ref group="notes">''The Mezentian Gate'', still incomplete when Eddison died in 1945; his brother edited and published it in 1958.</ref>

At a mass-meeting to discuss the formation of a local Christian Council a man arose and said that he approved of it because in his previous life he had been [[Wikipedia:Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson|Lord Nelson]]. Nobody laughed because he had made this claim so often that it was taken as a matter of course. Tolkien said it showed how little one might know of one’s home-town because he had never seen or heard of the man before.

Continuing the letter on 11 June, Tolkien remarked that he was very interested in Christopher's descriptions of his abode and the country. He said his son's sharpened memory was due to sharpened desire and new images not corresponding to anything old. Tolkien's own sharp memories were a beautiful blend of African and English details. He had once tried to keep a diary but found that it was not his line. Taking to “escapism” he transformed experience into [[Morgoth]], [[Orcs]], and the [[Eldalië|Eldalie]]. Tolkien said that were he younger he would wish to change places with Christopher, merely for change.
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