198 From a letter to Rayner Unwin

[An American film-maker had enquired about the possibility of making a cartoon film of The Lord of the Rings.]

19 June 1957

As far as I am concerned personally, I should welcome the idea of an animated motion picture, with all the risk of vulgarization; and that quite apart from the glint of money, though on the brink of retirement that is not an unpleasant possibility. I think I should find vulgarization less painful than the sillification achieved by the B.B.C.