Letter 68

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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Recipient	Christopher Tolkien
Date	12 May 1944
Subject(s)	On the way to Mordor in The Lord of the Rings

Letter 68 is a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Summary

Tolkien spent a morning writing and was within sight of Minas Morghul. He had not gotten new copies typed to send to Christopher because he was pushing on and could not wait to make fair copies. He made up a sentence between Faramir to Frodo: "When you return to the lands of the living, and we re-tell our tales, sitting by a wall in the sun, laughing at old grief, you shall tell me then."