HarperCollins Archived 11 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine cover text: "he evidently began it in the earlier nineteen-thirties, and it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 and urgently pressed him 'You simply must finish it!’
HarperCollins. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 23 May 2013. ↑ ჯ.რ.რ. ტოლკინის „ახალი“ ეპიკური ნაწარმოები შემდეგ წელს guardian.co.uk, სამშაბათი 9 ოქტომბერი 2012. ↑ HarperCollins, ტექსტი გარეკანზე: " he evidently began it in the earlier nineteen-thirties, and it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 and urgently pressed him ‘You simply must finish it!’