BMEM '08: Tolkien on Writing
Mar. 17th, 2008 09:13 pmDoes 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..."
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..."