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{{letter infobox
| #=157
| to=Katherine Farrer
| date=[[1954#November|November 27]], [[1954]]
| subject=Help for ill and troubled friend, Ents, working on Volume III
}}{{letter|157}}
==Summary==
Tolkien felt very mean, knowing that Katherine had been ill and troubled, and he had not communicated with her at all despite good intentions. Except for her charity he would have appeared as the type of "friend" who uses you and then departs when you break down.

He understood the financial difficulties. A real holiday should be "with more than pay". If funds could not be found he could well spare £50. Trinity College had been kind to him when he had been in a dreadful pinch in the early war years.<ref group="notes">Katherine Farrer’s husband was Chaplain of Trinity College and it was Trinity that had reduced the education fees of Tolkien’s sons as undergraduates.</ref> He should prefer this way of being grateful by helping her and her husband "toward the sun".

Tolkien returned a "copy of [[C.S. Lewis|Lewis]]"<ref group="notes">Possibly Lewis's review of ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' in ''Time & Tide''.</ref> and a copy of ''Encounter'' containing an [[H.W. Auden|Auden]] volley. She could keep the ''Encounter'' since he got it for her. The [[Ents]] seemed to have been a success.<ref group="notes">''[[The Two Towers]]'' had recently been published, on 11 November.</ref> As usually with himself, said Tolkien, they grew out of their name rather than the other way around. He had always felt something ought to be done about the peculiar Anglo Saxon word ''ent'' for a "giant".

He was hopeless behind with the "[[The Lord of the Rings Appendices|Appendices]]" to Volume III and [[Christopher Tolkien|Chris]] was too overwhelmed to help with maps. Nevertheless, he was at it.
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