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TOLKIEN, J.R.R. Autograph letter signed to Jennifer [Paxman], 76 Sandfield Road, Headington, Oxford, 28 July 1955, 2 pages, 4°.
ON THE MAPS IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS, AND A WELL-EARNED HOLIDAY. Tolkien comments on the labour of 'revising, seeing through the press the main work, and finally selecting, boiling down, and correcting the "Appendices" demanded by readers', complaining of his additional work as professor and administrator; referring further to the great labour of the new map of Gondor and Mordor drawn by Christopher Tolkien, 'I believe when Chris turned the scaled sketch into the beautiful new map he sat at it from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. continuous!'; looking forward now to his holidays in 'Gondor ...: Polargir and Lossarnach' (identified in a note as 'Italy: Venice and Assisi').
ON THE MAPS IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS, AND A WELL-EARNED HOLIDAY. Tolkien comments on the labour of 'revising, seeing through the press the main work, and finally selecting, boiling down, and correcting the "Appendices" demanded by readers', complaining of his additional work as professor and administrator; referring further to the great labour of the new map of Gondor and Mordor drawn by Christopher Tolkien, 'I believe when Chris turned the scaled sketch into the beautiful new map he sat at it from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. continuous!'; looking forward now to his holidays in 'Gondor ...: Polargir and Lossarnach' (identified in a note as 'Italy: Venice and Assisi').
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