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The text of\u00a0 Tolkien’s\u00a0<\/strong> 1937 lecture\u00a0 \u2018On Fairy-stories\u2019<\/strong>,<\/p>\n from which he developed the now famous published essay,<\/p>\n is authoritatively considered to be unidentified, probably lost.<\/p>\n Another still unsolved mystery The essay purports to solve both mysteries by showing <<<<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.euppublishing.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n doi\/10.3366\/<\/p>\n >>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <<< The text of\u00a0 Tolkien’s\u00a0 1937 lecture\u00a0 \u2018On Fairy-stories\u2019, from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19049,31222,17596,36352,40060,14914],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-john-garth","category-iu-university-of-edinburgh","category-r-tolkien-on-fairy-stories","category-rev-halifirien-hfz2025-jrrt-tkn","category-rev-journal-of-inklings-studies","category-recom-aulendil"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153127,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153125\/revisions\/153127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nis the date of the earliest substantial
\ntext of \u2018On Fairy-stories\u2019,
\nlabelled MS B by its editors.<\/p>\n
\nthat the running text of MS B was actually the script
\nTolkien used for his lecture at St Andrews on 8 March 1939.<\/p>\nink.2025.0270<\/a><\/h1>\n