Relevant quote: "All this only as background to the stories, though languages and names are for me inextricable from the stories. They are and were so to speak

Relevant quote: "All this only as background to the stories, though languages and names are for me inextricable from the stories. They are and were so to speak an attempt to give a background or a world in which my expressions of linguistic taste could have a function. The stories were comparatively late in coming." From letter 163.