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Originally Posted by Mithalwen
A lot of the letters that were published hardly show Tolkien as "untarnished". Often he is grumpy, peevish, at times mysogynistic and intolerant. To think that there is a lot of interesting stuff withheld is to me is the stuff of conspiracy theories.
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In the letters we see a lot of 'sides' to Tolkien, we see him being controversial, making grandiose statements, saying some quite personal things. He sometimes comes across as jingoistic and those ltters reveal a lot of things that could make us as readers quite uncomfortable. That tells me that we have quite enough of Tolkien's personal thoughts, and I trust that the editing has been done as openly as possible.
How much do we
need to see? Are we being greedy? Yes, I think we often are!