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Created page with "{{letter infobox | #=91 | to=Christopher Tolkien | date=November 29, 1944 | subject=Book Four done, preview of Book Five of ''The Lord of the Rings'…"

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{{letter infobox
| #=91
| to=[[Christopher Tolkien]]
| date=[[1944#November|November 29]], [[1944]]
| subject=Book Four done, preview of Book Five of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''
}}{{letter|91}}
==Summary==
Tolkien sent [[Christopher Tolkien|Christopher]] the last two chapters of the [[The Two Towers#Book IV|Fourth Book]], where it would be seen that Tolkien had gotten the hero into such a fix that not even an author will be able to extricate him, without labour and difficulty. [[C.S. Lewis|Lewis]] was moved almost to tears by the last chapter, yet Tolkien was chiefly interested in Christopher's reaction. It was very trying to have his chief audience Ten Thousand Miles away, on or off The Walloping Window-blind, said Tolkien. Even more trying for the audience but authors were an egotist tribe.

Tolkien then outlined Book Five, which he called the last. Tolkien described the story very much as it was published, until the destruction of [[The One Ring|the Ring]]. He did not know the manner in which this would be done. He then foresaw Baraddur<ref group="notes">Not yet spelled "Barad-dûr".</ref> crashing with the forces of [[Gandalf]] sweeping into [[Mordor]]. [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]] and [[Samwise Gamgee|Sam]] have to fight the last [[Nazgûl]] until rescued by Gandalf's eagle. Loose threads, down to [[Bill Ferny]]'s pony, had to be cleared up. Much of this would be done in a final chapter where Sam reads to his children and answers all of their questions.<ref group="notes">This final chapter, the Epilogue, was not published.</ref>

The final scene would be the passage to the [[Grey Havens]]. [[Aragorn]] far away labours to create order and preserve some memory of old among men, but [[Elrond]] has gone along with all the High Elves. Tolkien did not know what happened to the [[Ents]]. It might all happen very differently, he said, since the thing seems to write itself when he got going.
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Letter 91 - Revision history

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