“Most of O.U. [Oxford University] will take no interest in such a story, and the part that will is already clamoring, and indeed beginning to add The Hobbitto my long list of never-ne… See more

“Would you ask Mr. Unwin whether his son, a very reliable critic, would care to read the first chapter of the sequel to The Hobbit? I have typed it. I have no confidence in it, but if he though… See more

“… the presence (even if only on the borders) of the terrible is, I believe, what gives this imagined world its verisimilitude. A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.”—1… See more

“Mr. C.S. Lewis tells me that you have allowed him to submit to you ‘Out of the Silent Planet.’ I read it, of course; and I have since heard it pass a rather different test; that of … See more