A revised and expanded edition of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien will be released in November, bringing more insight into the author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Humphrey Carpenter is credited posthumously as the editor, alongside the assistance ofCarpenter wrote the first and only fully authorized biography of Tolkien, and later worked “closely with Christopher Tolkien to edit the letters,” according to a HarperCollins press release. Christopher Tolkien was heavily involved in all literary endeavors concerning his father’s work, as he was the literary executor of the Tolkien estate.
HarperCollins’ senior vice president, Jennifer Hart, says that this manuscript more accurately reflects the original intention of Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien. Describing the 1981 book, she says that “at the publisher’s request, [Carpenter and Tolkien] were required to reduce the original selection to what was then deemed a publishable extent.
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