Unpublished Tolkien Letter for sale!

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

You know, the author A. S. Byatt has an interesting character who deals in authors' letters. I wonder how applicable her character is to this situation.

I have no intention of selling my car to finance such a purchase. And those irregularities in punctuation belong in one of our Barrow Downs threads.

The evil Mortimer Cropper? He who snaps up just about anything related to Ash and whisks it away to New Mexico? I often think of that character when I think of the massive trade in Tolkien material worldwide and how much of it has been taken away to the wealthy Marquette.... Then it is fed to us poor saps in little, expensive drips via £100 scholarly journals.

Maybe there is a lesson that Tolkien fans ought to be rummaging away in the backs of obscure books hidden in the stacks of the Bodleian library for secret letters from Tolkien.

Possession is my second favourite book by the way.