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*'''Comment:''' A part of this letter was originally published as [[Letter 131]] in ''[[The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien]]''. It was also included as an introduction to the 30th Anniversary edition of ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' ([[2007]]).<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=85400|articlename=The Silmarillion. 2007|dated=|website=TB|accessed=21 December 2011}}</ref>
*'''Comment:''' A part of this letter was originally published as [[Letter 131]] in ''[[The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien]]''. It was also included as an introduction to the 30th Anniversary edition of ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' ([[2007]]).<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=85400|articlename=The Silmarillion. 2007|dated=|website=TB|accessed=21 December 2011}}</ref>
*'''Publication:''' ''[[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]]'' and ''[[La Feuille de la Compagnie 2]]''. An excerpt not published in ''The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien'' appeared in ''[[Sauron Defeated]]'' (pp. 129, 132). This excerpt detailed that Boromir was an inherently evil character, naming him as the primary antagonist in the first book. Tolkien stated the character was based on a mixture of Jack Cliff and Michael Wanamaker's characteristics, who at the time he described as "gigantic, utter bastards."
*'''Publication:''' ''[[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]]'' and ''[[La Feuille de la Compagnie 2]]''.  
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In 1951, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to Milton Waldman.

References

  1. "The Silmarillion. 2007", TolkienBooks.net (accessed 21 December 2011)