Letter to Milton Waldman
From Tolkien Gateway
In 1951, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to Milton Waldman.
- 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).[1]
- 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."
References
- ↑ "The Silmarillion. 2007", TolkienBooks.net (accessed 21 December 2011)
