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'''Rayner Heppenstall 13 December 1954''' is a [[Letters not published in "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien"|letter]] from [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] to [[Wikipedia:Rayner Heppenstall|Rayner Heppenstall]], written on [[13 December]] [[1954]].<ref name=CG>{{CG|C}}, pp. 446-7</ref>
On [[13 December]] [[1954]], [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] wrote '''[[Letters not published in "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien"|a letter]] to [[wikipedia:Rayner Heppenstall|Rayner Heppenstall]]'''.<ref name=CG>{{CG|C}}, pp. 446-7</ref>


*'''Contents:''' Critical points about the [[The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son (radio play)|radio play ''The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth'']] (broadcast on [[3 December]]). While the letter has not been kept in the [[BBC]] Written Archives Centre, it can be inferred from Heppenstall's reply on the same day that Tolkien appears to have "included comments that the readers ignored the [[Wikipedia:Alliterative verse|alliterative metre]] of the work, and delivered the verse as if it were [[Wikipedia:Iambic pentameter|iambic pentameter]]".<ref name=CG/>
*'''Contents:''' Critical points about the [[The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son (radio play)|radio play ''The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth'']] (broadcast on [[3 December]]). While the letter has not been kept in the [[BBC]] Written Archives Centre, it can be inferred from Heppenstall's reply on the same day that Tolkien appears to have "included comments that the readers ignored the [[Wikipedia:Alliterative verse|alliterative metre]] of the work, and delivered the verse as if it were [[Wikipedia:Iambic pentameter|iambic pentameter]]".<ref name=CG/>
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*[[Letter 152|Rayner Heppenstall 22 September 1954 (Letter 152)]]
*[[Letter 152|Rayner Heppenstall 22 September 1954 (Letter 152)]]
*[[Rayner Heppenstall 17 November 1954]]
*[[Letter to Rayner Heppenstall (17 November 1954)]]
*[[Rayner Heppenstall 1-2 December 1954]]
*[[Letter to Rayner Heppenstall (1-2 December 1954)]]


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On 13 December 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to Rayner Heppenstall.[1]

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