283 To Benjamin P. Indick

[A reply to a letter from a reader.]

7 January 1966

76 Sandfield Road, Headington, Oxford

Dear Mr Indick,

Thank you very much for your long and interesting letter and comments. They deserve a much fuller answer, but I hope you will forgive me since I am much pressed. Indeed, if I am ever to produce any more of the stories which you ask for, that can only be done by failing to answer letters.

Yours gratefully
J. R. R. Tolkien.