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Revision as of 23:27, 30 March 2014
Ken Jackson 29 January 1968 is a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Ken Jackson, written on 29 January 1968.[1]
- Subject: Reply to a reader, concerning permission to name his house "Bag End". Tolkien comments that he did not invent the name; Bag End was the local name for the house of his Aunt Jane Neave.[1]
- Descrition: One page, typed letter signed
- Publication: A small excerpt was published by Colin Duriez in J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, p. 455.
Content
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 (¿). In the case of Bag-End, I did not (¿) 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
External links
- The excerpt is also found on the online version of J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment on GoogleBooks.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 716