Rayner Unwin with a copy of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, which he, aged 10, recommended to his father, the publisher Sir Stanley Unwin
Rayner Stephens Unwin CBE (23 December 1925 – 23 November 2000)[1] was an English publisher.[2] He served as the chairman of the publishing firm George Allen & Unwin, which had been founded by his father Sir Stanley Unwin.
^Cite error: The named reference TimesObit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Smith, Anthony (27 November 2000). "Obituary: Rayner Stephens Unwin, publisher". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
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...
2000). "RaynerUnwin". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2010. Unwin, Rayner (1999). George Allen & Unwin: A Remembrancer...
Allen & Unwin, 9 October 1953 Carpenter 2023, #182 to Anne Barrett of Houghton Mifflin, 1956 Tolkien 1954a, "The Council of Elrond" RaynerUnwin (1978)...
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...
appendices. In 1953, he proposed titles for the six books to his publisher, RaynerUnwin; Book Five was to be The War of the Ring, while Book Six was to be The...
cricketer Paul Unwin (film director) (b. 1957), UK-based film and television director Raymond Unwin (1863–1940), English planner RaynerUnwin (1925–2000)...
the woodmen's villages. Tolkien's wargs influenced the ten-year-old RaynerUnwin to write a positive review of The Hobbit, with the words "Bilbo Baggins...
that Frodo is still alive, but is separated from him. In letters to RaynerUnwin, Tolkien considered leaving the title ambiguous or naming the two as...
longest-awaited unedited works. According to the Tolkien scholar John D. Rateliff, RaynerUnwin had announced plans to edit the poem as early as 1985, but the edition...
"the most attractive" of his poems in a 1952 letter to his publisher, RaynerUnwin, adding that it is in a metre I invented (depending on trisyllabic assonances...
2011a, pp. 15–17. Brooke-Rose 1981, p. 247. Carpenter 2023, #281 to RaynerUnwin, 15 December 1965. Boswell, George W. (1969). "Proverbs and Phraseology...
pp. 109–110. ISBN 978-0-415-96942-0. Carpenter 2023, letter #177 to RaynerUnwin, 8 December 1955 Stimpson, Catharine (1969). J. R. R. Tolkien. Columbia...
the end of the book. In a letter dated 6 April 1956 to his publisher RaynerUnwin, Tolkien stated that the tale was the only part of the Appendices that...
chapters to his publisher for comment. They were read by the 12-year-old RaynerUnwin, who had given a favourable opinion of The Hobbit to his father some...
deeply disliked it, criticising its approach in a letter to his publisher RaynerUnwin. In particular, Tolkien objected to the translation of proper names,...
Balmacara (born 1947) Life peer and former policy advisor to Gordon Brown. RaynerUnwin (1925–2000), publisher John Gardner Wilkinson (1797–1875), traveller...
Global Information