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Letter 1

This page concerns the real world.

Letter 1 is the first of J.R.R. Tolkien's letters in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Summary

Edith calls Tolkien a pig if he doesn't write as often as before. Tolkien writes about his final year's training at the University Officer's Training Corps in Oxford. He also mentions The Story of Kullervo, a retelling of a story from Finnish mythology he was writing.