Letter to Ken Jackson (29 January 1968)

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Ken Jackson 29 January 1968 is a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Ken Jackson, written on 29 January 1968.[1][2]

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29 January, 1968.

My dear Jackson,

Thank you for your kind letter. It may interest you to know that (however unfair it may seem) it is impossible to patent mere names. That you known his obligation to any say permition, though I appreciate your courtesy. In the case of Bag-End, I did not invent it. It was in fact the local name of a house an aunt of mine lived in in Worcestershire: an old tumbledown manor house at the end of an untidy lane that led nowhere else.

Your Sincerely.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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