The Lord of the Rings, Series 3


MS.Tolkien, Series 3Series 3

Series 3 is in The Lord of the Rings, which includes 4 other series and 0 comments. The series contains 9 boxes and 0 comments; it may be cited as MS. Tolkien, Series 3.

Orig­i­nal drafts received in 1958, includ­ing holo­graph ren­der­ings, type­scripts with cor­rec­tions by Tolkien, a type­script for the print­er with cor­rec­tions by JRRT, and gal­ley sheets with cor­rec­tions by the author. There are two sets of gal­ley sheets for Books I and II and three sets for Books II and IV. Also includ­ed are an advance proof copy of The Return of the King, print­ed maps, dust jack­ets from the orig­i­nal Houghton Mif­flin edi­tion, sev­er­al drafts for an unpub­lished Epi­logue,” a num­ber of unpub­lished sketch­es, and man­u­script frag­ments for The Sil­mar­il­lion.

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Orig­i­nal drafts received in 1958, includ­ing holo­graph ren­der­ings, type­scripts with cor­rec­tions by Tolkien, a type­script for the print­er with cor­rec­tions by JRRT, and gal­ley sheets with cor­rec­tions by the author. There are two sets of gal­ley sheets for Books I and II and three sets for Books II and IV. Also includ­ed are an advance proof copy of The Return of the King, print­ed maps, dust jack­ets from the orig­i­nal Houghton Mif­flin edi­tion, sev­er­al drafts for an unpub­lished Epi­logue,” a num­ber of unpub­lished sketch­es, and man­u­script frag­ments for The Sil­mar­il­lion.

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