130 From a letter to Sir Stanley Unwin

[Further consideration led Tolkien to decide that an explanatory note would definitely be needed in the new edition.]

14 September 1950

I have decided to accept the existence of both versions of Chapter Five, so far as the sequel goes – though I have no time at the moment to rewrite that at the required points. I enclose, therefore, a copy of the briefest form of the prefatory note: which is intended as copy, if you should think it well to use it in the reprint.