Carta 282
It is a fragment of a larger letter to Clyde S. Kilby whose parts have been published elsewhere.
Summary
Tolkien said that he never had much confidence in his own work, even when he was assured that it had value for others. Had it not been for C.S. Lewis he would never have completed or offered for publication The Lord of the Rings. The Silmarillion was quite different and if good then good in another way. It began in a hospital and during sick leave in World War I and had been with him and worked on ever since, yet was still in a confused state. It needed the assistance of a scholar that was sympathetic, critical, and actually present at one's side. Tolkien said he would be free to return to it in the next year during June through August.
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