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The quote from Tolkien's letter comes from a published book, The Letters of JRR Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter. It's well worth reading, even purchasing, if you're interested in his comments on his life and works as well as his answers to questions that readers wrote him.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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