Another one bites the dust....

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

The Bodleian holds an archive and while Tolkien's manuscriptscare open to scholars the family papers are not.

Actually, that is not true. At RotR during a session on how to undertake research on Tolkien, we were told that no one, not even scholars with full accreditation to a university, are allowed to see the manuscripts for The Silm and HoMe. For other works, scholars must apply not to the Bodleian but to the Estate. Verlyn Fleiger had to get CT's approval, not the library's, to undertake her edition of SWM.

Since you were not at Oxonmoot, Mithalwen, where do you get your information about what was in the Hilary biography?