The Name Coventry

The Name Coventry is the published title of a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to the Editor of The Catholic Herald, written on 10-11 February 1945.

• Subject: Tolkien discusses the derivations of "convent" and "Coventry", and English place-names in general.
• Publication: The letter was published in The Catholic Herald (23 February 1945). Extracts from the letter also appeared in The Catholic Herald (18 September 1981).