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*The excerpt is also found on the online version of ''J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment'' on [http://books.google.com/ ''GoogleBooks''].
*The excerpt is also found on the online version of ''J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment'' on [http://books.google.com/ ''GoogleBooks''].
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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]

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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 (¿). 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

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  • The excerpt is also found on the online version of J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment on GoogleBooks.

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