The Name Coventry
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The Name Coventry is the published title of a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to the Editor of The Catholic Herald, written on 10-11 February 1945.[1]
- Subject: Tolkien discusses the derivations of "convent" and "Coventry", and English place-names in general.[2][1]
- Publication: The letter was published in The Catholic Herald (23 February 1945).[2][1][3] Extracts from the letter also appeared in The Catholic Herald (18 September 1981).[4]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, pp. 287-8
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Catholic Herald. 1945", TolkienBooks.net (accessed 8 July 2012)
- ↑ From Professor Tolkien, "The Name Coventry" dated 23 February 1945, Catholic Herald (accessed 11 February 2021) (archived: Wayback Machine).
- ↑ "Catholic Herald. 1981", TolkienBooks.net (accessed 8 July 2012)
