Praise Scull and Hammond for an excellent index - praise them with great praise! I was able to find this answer without reading the Letters in their entirety.
Tolkien agreed to an informal association with the Tolkien Society of America and suggested that he would
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as an inveterate pipe smoker be happy to accept the title of Member for Longbottom...
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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