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Originally Posted by Inziladun
In Letters #144 written in 1938, Tolkien states:
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Letter no. 144 is dated 25 April
1954 to Naomi Mitchison. It is thus later than the transition that occurred while Tolkien was writing
The Lord of the Rings. I'd have to go back and check the four HoMe volumes on the history of
The Lord of the Rings for the details, but I think this change was fairly late in the writing — after his (near?) break-down in '46 and, IIRC, after he had worked on
The Notion Club Papers also.