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William Cloud Hicklin · 01-31-2009, 07:03 PM

Good luck! But I recommend you arrange reader's privileges ahead of time, or you may be disappointed.

Although I really have no idea how much Tolkien academic stuff is there, or in France, on the whole the old boy never threw *anything* away: the preface and commentary to Sigrid and Gudrun come from his lecture-notes on Old Norse poetry fom the 20's; and Drout's Beowulf book was drawn from the various drafts of the famous lecture. I would expect that virtually all his lecture notes survive; they just haven't seen publication (yet).

01-31-2009, 07:03 PM	#34
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	Good luck! But I recommend you arrange reader's privileges ahead of time, or you may be disappointed. Although I really have no idea how much Tolkien academic stuff is there, or in France, on the whole the old boy never threw anything away: the preface and commentary to Sigrid and Gudrun come from his lecture-notes on Old Norse poetry fom the 20's; and Drout's Beowulf book was drawn from the various drafts of the famous lecture. I would expect that virtually all his lecture notes survive; they just haven't seen publication (yet). __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.