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letter probably can stand as some sort of signal of his thought during the initial years of writing LOTR.
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Bethberry you are quite right on this point. I also concur with your wish for a scholarly edition of Tolkien's letters etc.
Just to get this thread REALLY tangental, I've got somewhere an interview with a woman who was an au pair to Tolkien's children when she was young. I seem to remember she had some very interesting things to say about Tolkien's domestic attitudes and so on, some of which might be relevant... If I can only find it...