TY - JOUR
AU1 - Anderson, Douglas A. (Douglas Allen)
AB -  NOTES and DOCUMENTS R. W. Chambers and The Hobbit DOUGLAS A. ANDERSON n mid-August 1937, Tolkien directed his publisher, George Allen & Unwin, to send an early copy of The Hobbit, whose publication was scheduled for September 21st, to R. W. Chambers, the Quain Professor of English at University College London. At the end of the month, Tolkien wrote to his publisher: "Professor Chambers writes very enthusiastically, but he is an old and kind-hearted friend" (Letters 20).1 A few years later, after Chambers collected his lectures and essays in a volume entitled Man's Unconquerable Mind: Studies from Bede to A. E. Housman and W. P. Ker (1939), Tolkien wrote to Chambers: My thanks are overdue for your most welcome book. My shelves are well-endowed with your generous gifts, yet there are I think 2 studies in the volume that I do not possess, and have not read--alas! not yet even in the collection. I have meant to, but I delay no longer to thank you, for it will be some time before I read anything rational. I shall first reread viii and ix, which I remember so eminently deserves several readings.2 (Chabot 93) Remarks like these make it 
TI - R. W. Chambers and The Hobbit
JF - Tolkien Studies
DA - 2006-05-09
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/west-virginia-university-press/r-w-chambers-and-the-hobbit-TeZ0PDyeT4
SP - 137
EP - 147
VL - 3
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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