2008/12/29 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
I can point to articles that source statements and claims to Tolkien's letters, or quotes from those letters. The articles should probably, more technically, point to secondary literature that uses those letters as a source, but there always seems to be exceptions where directly citing the letter seems the best way to allow verifiability. I can certainly attest that quoting a secondary source can give undue weight when the secondary source is giving only one interpretation of what a letter might mean. And the concern that quoting the letter directly is original research is also very real. Interpretation of the meaning of what someone has said can be very tricky.
Please get to WT:NOR promptly.
- d.