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== Excerpt ==
== Excerpt ==


"I have never been to Iceland. Something has always interfered with my plans to go there. So my acquaintance with its landscape is derived entirely from photographs... One point of influence at any rate is certain, namely, the [[Midgwater Marshes]], the name of which is of course merely a translation of Mývatn..."
"I have never been to Iceland. Something has always interfered with my plans to go there. So my acquaintance with its landscape is derived entirely from photographs... One point of influence at any rate is certain, namely, the [[Midgewater Marshes]], the name of which is of course merely a translation of Mývatn..."


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Revision as of 21:53, 17 September 2010

Roger Shaw 7 January 1966 is a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Roger Shaw, sent on January 7, 1966.

Excerpt

"I have never been to Iceland. Something has always interfered with my plans to go there. So my acquaintance with its landscape is derived entirely from photographs... One point of influence at any rate is certain, namely, the Midgewater Marshes, the name of which is of course merely a translation of Mývatn..."

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