158 From a letter to Rayner Unwin

[A comment on the 'blurb' on the dust-jacket of Houghton Mifflin's edition of The Two Towers.]

2 December 1954

I have only just had time to glance at the H.M. 'jacket' stuff. .... This account must have been written by someone who has not read the book, but relied on hearsay inaccurately remembered. The 'giving away of the plot' is, of course, a silly (and unnecessary) procedure; but at least the plot given away might be that of the book described. Or is that part of the game?