![]() Smith sent a two-page typed list of "Index questions," to Tolkien at the early stages of the project. Smith was paid the standard rate of £5 per volume for her work. The finished result, a carbon copy of which accompanies this lot, filled 84 single-spaced typed pages. Smith began the index in January of 1958, and it took four months to completion. Preparation of the index engendered some correspondence between Smith and Tolkien, who wanted the material to be divided into three parts: Persons, Places, and Things. Smith, was a British foreign service officer who shared rooms at Oxford with Christopher Tolkien and Rayner Unwin. Nancy Smith, an editor and family friend. The managing director of the firm, Rayner S. TOLKIEN'S MANUSCRIPT NOTES FOR THE 'LORD OF THE RINGS' INDEXįollowing publication of the final volume of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, demand grew among readers for an index to the monumental work and the publisher, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., eventually complied to these requests only after Tolkien himself sought an index for his own use. ![]() ![]() With a typed questionnaire headed "Index questions," from Smith annotated by Tolkien in red, 2 pages, 4to. Tolkien" on page 3, and initial-signed at end), comprising detailed instructions for the index to The Lord of the Rings.
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