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Fordim Hedgethistle · 10-10-2004, 05:54 PM

Bumping this in the hopes that we might get another hint. But as I recently read a thread begun by none other than our beloved Esty in which she laments 'nothing' posts, I will give this some content and take a guess at the answer to the current poser:

Mrs Unwin?

Estelyn Telcontar · 10-11-2004, 12:17 AM

Sometimes wild guesses come very close, Fordim! It was a member of the family, though not Unwin's wife...

Fordim Hedgethistle · 10-11-2004, 05:59 AM

His son? His daughter? His estranged uncle who lived in the attic? The cat?

Estelyn Telcontar · 10-11-2004, 06:14 AM

Son is correct, Fordim - but not Rayner, who is well-known to us as his father's "assistent" for judging children's books. I'd like a name, please; hint - it can be found in the index to the Letters...

Fordim Hedgethistle · 10-11-2004, 07:30 AM

David!

In the notes for letter #98 we find out that Sir Stanley's elder son David wrote children's stories under the name David Severn and that he had read LbN in The Dublin Review and suggested it be published in 1945.

I find this so interesting! I had always assumed that any thought of publishing LbN would have been post-Lotr.

Estelyn Telcontar · 10-11-2004, 10:38 AM

You got it, Fordim! Yes, that is an interesting bit of trivia, isn't it?! Now you get to find something equally interesting...

Fordim Hedgethistle · 10-11-2004, 02:42 PM

Piet Harting and the Professor ate what Fear Factor-type of food together?

10-10-2004, 05:54 PM	#1
Fordim Hedgethistle Gibbering Gibbet Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Beyond cloud nine Posts: 1,844	Bumping this in the hopes that we might get another hint. But as I recently read a thread begun by none other than our beloved Esty in which she laments 'nothing' posts, I will give this some content and take a guess at the answer to the current poser: Mrs Unwin? __________________ Scribbling scrabbling.

10-11-2004, 12:17 AM	#2
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Sometimes wild guesses come very close, Fordim! It was a member of the family, though not Unwin's wife... __________________ '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...'

10-11-2004, 05:59 AM	#3
Fordim Hedgethistle Gibbering Gibbet Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Beyond cloud nine Posts: 1,844	His son? His daughter? His estranged uncle who lived in the attic? The cat? __________________ Scribbling scrabbling.

10-11-2004, 06:14 AM	#4
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Son is correct, Fordim - but not Rayner, who is well-known to us as his father's "assistent" for judging children's books. I'd like a name, please; hint - it can be found in the index to the Letters... __________________ '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...'

10-11-2004, 07:30 AM	#5
Fordim Hedgethistle Gibbering Gibbet Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Beyond cloud nine Posts: 1,844	David! In the notes for letter #98 we find out that Sir Stanley's elder son David wrote children's stories under the name David Severn and that he had read LbN in The Dublin Review and suggested it be published in 1945. I find this so interesting! I had always assumed that any thought of publishing LbN would have been post-Lotr. __________________ Scribbling scrabbling.

10-11-2004, 10:38 AM	#6
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	You got it, Fordim! Yes, that is an interesting bit of trivia, isn't it?! Now you get to find something equally interesting... __________________ '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...'

10-11-2004, 02:42 PM	#7
Fordim Hedgethistle Gibbering Gibbet Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Beyond cloud nine Posts: 1,844	Piet Harting and the Professor ate what Fear Factor-type of food together? __________________ Scribbling scrabbling.

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