Tolkien & Wolfe

John Watkins · 12 Jan 2010, 14:26 · from 2010-January.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:26:59 -0500
Subject: (urth) Tolkien & Wolfe
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Possibly that just refers to the fan letter Wolfe sent Tolkien and the reply
he received?  Wolfe describes both, and transcribes Tolkien's response, in
"The Best Introduction to the Mountains."

Unless Wolfe preserved a copy of his letter, it must survive, if at all, in
Tolkien's papers.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gene_Wolfe&curid=157426&diff=336438974&oldid=336408664
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> Has anyone ever seen Wolfe & Tolkien's correspondence?
>
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