• Rayner Stephens Unwin CBE (23 December 1925 – 23 November 2000) was an English publisher. He served as the chairman of the publishing firm George Allen...
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  • interest. Frank Arthur Mumby and Frances Helena Swan Stallybrass, Unwin's son Rayner S. Unwin and his nephew Philip helped him to run the company, which published...
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  • publication and Unwin paid his ten-year-old son Rayner Unwin a shilling to write a report on the manuscript. Rayner's favourable response prompted Unwin to publish...
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    Melkor" Carpenter 2023, #137 to Rayner Unwin, 11 April 1953; #139 to Rayner Unwin, 8 August 1953; #141 to Allen & Unwin, 9 October 1953; #144 to Naomi...
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  • 2015, "1 juli 2003". Carpenter 2023, #204 to Rayner Unwin, 7 December 1957 Tolkien-George Allen & Unwin archive, HarperCollins, cited after Hammond &...
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  • The Lord of the Rings (category Allen & Unwin books)
    2000). "Rayner Unwin". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2010. Unwin, Rayner (1999). George Allen & Unwin: A Remembrancer...
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  • The Return of the King (category Allen & Unwin books)
    appendices. In 1953, he proposed titles for the six books to his publisher, Rayner Unwin; Book Five was to be The War of the Ring, while Book Six was to be The...
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  • 8 December 1955 Carpenter 2023, #177 to Rayner Unwin, 8 December 1955 Carpenter 2023, #198 to Rayner Unwin, 19 June 1957 Carpenter, Humphrey (1977)....
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  • make it as authentic as possible. He anxiously wrote to his publisher Rayner Unwin asking about the reproduction of the artefact. The company however chose...
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  • bibliography of the publications of J. R. R. Tolkien. It has a foreword by Rayner Unwin. The book subdivides the works of Tolkien into the following sections:...
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    commonly pronounced /ˈtoʊlkiːn/ . Carpenter & Tolkien 1981, Letters #190 to Rayner Unwin, 3 July 1956: "After all the book is English, and by an Englishman" Carpenter...
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  • The Silmarillion (category Allen & Unwin books)
    #141 to Allen & Unwin, 9 October 1953 Tolkien 1987, p. 202 Carpenter 2023, #247 to Colonel Worksett, 20 September 1963 Rayner Unwin (1978), in Amon Hen...
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  • "the most attractive" of his poems in a 1952 letter to his publisher, Rayner Unwin, adding that it is in a metre I invented (depending on trisyllabic assonances...
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  • Dutch translation, as is evident from a 1957 letter to his publisher Rayner Unwin: The enclosure that you brought from Almqvist &c. was both puzzling and...
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    Expanded Edition. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-35-865298-4., #263 to Rayner Unwin, 1957 Tolkien och den svarta magin (1982), ISBN 978-91-7574-053-9. Vem...
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    2011a, pp. 15–17. Brooke-Rose 1981, p. 247. Carpenter 2023, #281 to Rayner Unwin, 15 December 1965. Attebery, Brian (2012). James, Edward; Mendlesohn...
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  • 1925 – Duncan Hallas, English author and politician (died 2002) 1925 – Rayner Unwin, English publisher (died 2000) 1926 – Robert Bly, American poet and essayist...
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  • cricketer Paul Unwin (film director) (b. 1957), UK-based film and television director Raymond Unwin (1863–1940), English planner Rayner Unwin (1925–2000)...
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  • New Line. 2003. Carpenter 2023, #140 to Rayner Unwin, 17 August 1953. Carpenter 2023, #143 to Rayner Unwin 22 January 1954. Hammond & Scull 1995, p. 178...
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  • longest-awaited unedited works. According to the Tolkien scholar John D. Rateliff, Rayner Unwin had announced plans to edit the poem as early as 1985, but the edition...
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  • The Two Towers (category Allen & Unwin books)
    overhears them and learns that Frodo is still alive. In a letter to Rayner Unwin in August 1953, Tolkien proposed the volume's title and considered leaving...
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  • 1954, book 2, ch. 4 "A Journey in the Dark" Carpenter 2023, #137 to Rayner Unwin, 11 April 1953 Tolkien, J. R. R., "The Name Nodens", Appendix to "Report...
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    his 149 The Lord of the Rings works. Tolkien wrote to his publisher, Rayner Unwin, that he found Blok's paintings "most attractive", especially the Hornburg...
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  • the end of the book. In a letter dated 6 April 1956 to his publisher Rayner Unwin, Tolkien stated that the tale was the only part of the Appendices that...
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  • He offered it to the publisher Stanley Unwin, for his son, the 12-year old Rayner Unwin, to read. It was Rayner who had recommended that The Hobbit should...
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  • (books 1, 2, 3). HarperCollins (audiobook). Carpenter 2023, #201 to Rayner Unwin, 7 September 1957 Ferré, Vincent. "Tolkien, our Judge of Peter Jackson"...
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  • the woodmen's villages. Tolkien's wargs influenced the ten-year-old Rayner Unwin to write a positive review of The Hobbit, with the words "Bilbo Baggins...
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  • chapters to his publisher for comment. They were read by the 12-year-old Rayner Unwin, who had given a favourable opinion of The Hobbit to his father some...
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  • The Hobbit (category Allen & Unwin books)
    book to Stanley Unwin, who then asked his 10-year-old son Rayner to review it. Rayner's favourable comments settled Allen & Unwin's decision to publish...
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  • pp. 109–110. ISBN 978-0-415-96942-0. Carpenter 2023, letter #177 to Rayner Unwin, 8 December 1955 Stimpson, Catherine R. (1969). J. R. R. Tolkien. Columbia...
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