BMEM '08: Tolkien on Writing

[lady_branwyn]

Does this sound familiar? :)

From an airgraph to Christopher Tolkien
12 October 1944 (FS 55)

"I began trying to write again (I would, on the brink of term!) on Tuesday, but I struck a most awkward error (one or two days) in the synchronization, v. important at this stage, of movements of Frodo and the others, which has cost labour and thought and will require tiresome small alterations in many chapters; but at any rate I have actually begun Book Five..."

Comments

[kortirion.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Nice to know even the great and good suffer from problems of internal logic! *g*

[lady-branwyn.livejournal.com]

The quote I really wanted to find (but couldn't) was one where Tolkien was talking at length about how, when he was in the military, he spent a great deal of time day-dreaming about his stories and fictional languages. Then he remarked (as if this had never occured to him), "I suppose that was something of a dereliction of duty, wasn't it?" Bwahahaha! (Sounds like me at work, actually...)