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The text of  Tolkien’s  1937 lecture  ‘On Fairy-stories’,

from which he developed the now famous published essay,

is authoritatively considered to be unidentified, probably lost.

Another still unsolved mystery
is the date of the earliest substantial
text of ‘On Fairy-stories’,
labelled MS B by its editors.

The essay purports to solve both mysteries by showing
that the running text of MS B was actually the script
Tolkien used for his lecture at St Andrews on 8 March 1939.

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https://www.euppublishing.com/

doi/10.3366/

ink.2025.0270

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