Tolkien and Trees
...and I’d go back to trees. #339 To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph [In a leader in the Daily Telegraph of 29 June 1972, entitled ‘Forestry and Us’, there occurred this passage: ‘Sheepwalks where you could once ramble for miles are transformed into a kind of Tolkien gloom, where no bird sings…’ Tolkien’s letter was published, with a slight alteration to the opening sentence, in the issue of 4 July.] 30 June 1972 Merton College, Oxford Dear Sir, W...