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Suffields
Maybe we should also have a page (or part of this one?) for the Suffield family. Tolkien considered himself to be a Suffield more than a Tolkien.[1][2]
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 44, (dated 18 March 1941), "Though a Tolkien by name, I am a Suffield by tastes, talents, and upbringing"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 165, (undated, written June 1955), "I am in fact far more of a Suffield"