Editing J. R. R. Tolkien (section)

=== Manuscript locations ===
Before his death, Tolkien negotiated the sale of the manuscripts, drafts, proofs and other materials related to his then-published works—including ''The Lord of the Rings'', ''The Hobbit'' and ''Farmer Giles of Ham''—to the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at [[Marquette University]]'s John P. Raynor, S.J., Library in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin|Milwaukee]], Wisconsin.<ref>{{cite web |date=4 March 2003 |title=J. R. R. Tolkien Collection |url=http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/tolkien.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980112073406/http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/tolkien.html |archive-date=12 January 1998 |website=Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Marquette University}}</ref> After his death his estate donated the papers containing Tolkien's ''Silmarillion'' mythology and his academic work to the [[Bodleian Library]] at [[Oxford University]].<ref>{{cite news |last=McDowell |first=Edwin |date=4 September 1983 |title=Middle-earth Revisited |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/11/specials/tolkien-revisited.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411062452/http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/11/specials/tolkien-revisited.html |archive-date=11 April 2009}}</ref> The Bodleian Library held an exhibition of his work in 2018, including more than 60 items which had never been seen in public before.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Turley |first=Katherine |date=2 June 2018 |title=Inside a Very Great Story... |magazine=The Tablet |pages=20–21}}</ref>

In 2009, a partial draft of ''[[Language and Human Nature]]'', which Tolkien had begun co-writing with [[C.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;Lewis]] but had never completed, was discovered at the Bodleian Library.<ref>{{cite web |date=8 July 2009 |title=Beebe discovers unpublished C.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;Lewis manuscript |url=http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2009/07/CSLewis070809.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602064824/http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2009/07/CSLewis070809.html |archive-date=2 June 2010 |website=txstate.edu, University News Service}}</ref>