Letter 21

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Letter 21
Recipient	Allen & Unwin
Date	February 1, 1938
Subject(s)	The Lord of the Rings

Letter 21 is a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Summary

In this fragment of a letter Tolkien asked if Stanley Unwin's young son Rayner would care to read a typed version of A Long Expected Party, the first chapter of what would become The Lord of the Rings. Rayner was, he remarked, a "a very reliable critic".