tolkienianos:

  I had great difficulty (it took several years) to get my story published, and it is not easy to say who is most surprised at the result : myself or the publishers! But it remains an unfailing delight to me to find my own belief justified: that the ‘fairy-story’ is really an adult genre, and one for which a starving audience exists. I said so, more or less, in my essay on the fairy-story in the collection dedicated to the memory of Charles Williams. But it was a mere proposition – which awaited proof. As C. S. Lewis said to me long ago, more or less – (I do not suppose my memory of his dicta is any more precisely accurate than his of mine: I often find strange things attributed to me in his works) – ‘if they won’t write the kind of books we want to read, we shall have to write them ourselves; but it is very laborious’. Being a man of immense power and industry, his ‘trilogy’ was finished much sooner amidst much other work; but at last my slower and more meticulous (as well as more indolent and less organized) machine has produced its effort. The labour! I have typed myself nearly all of it twice, and pans more often; not to mention the written stages ! But I am amply rewarded and encouraged to find that the labour was not wasted. One such letter as yours is sufficient – and ‘furnishes more than any author ought to ask’.

J.R.R. Tolkien in a letter to Dora Marshall (March 3rd, 1955)

Source: tolkienianos

701 Notes/ Hide

  1. johnwatsonismyblogger reblogged this from booksandhotchocolate
  2. me-gusta-pintar reblogged this from charlosplace
  3. charlosplace reblogged this from soyawesome
  4. soyawesome reblogged this from mynotsosecretplace
  5. mynotsosecretplace reblogged this from booksandhotchocolate
  6. quakerhobbit reblogged this from booksandhotchocolate and added:
    Dear, beloved, Professor Tolkien. Thank God you were who you were and wrote what you wrote: I know I, at least, am a...
  7. marionandindy reblogged this from booksandhotchocolate
  8. flawlessindie reblogged this from booksandhotchocolate
  9. wingedanomaly reblogged this from booksandhotchocolate
  10. booksandhotchocolate reblogged this from booksandghosts
  11. elysian-anathema reblogged this from booksandghosts
  12. liliax reblogged this from booksandghosts and added:
    wow, this is really inspiring.
  13. booksandghosts reblogged this from literarykitten
  14. dreamingthroughthenoise reblogged this from queenrivendell
  15. roosdewit reblogged this from verisiel
  16. phizz-wizards reblogged this from fellowshipoftheringers
  17. livehonestly reblogged this from fellowshipoftheringers
  18. cactusflavouredtoiletpaper reblogged this from fellowshipoftheringers
  19. 8520bubby reblogged this from verisiel
  20. verisiel reblogged this from fellowshipoftheringers
  21. crickhollowhobbit reblogged this from theavengersmovie
  22. theavengersmovie reblogged this from tolkien-lore
  23. adeylescosmic reblogged this from -paradox
  24. akaine reblogged this from tolkien-lore and added:
    Even if only one person enjoys your writing, then it is worth every moment of agony that has taken place in writing it.
  25. imaginarypachyderm reblogged this from anabsolutedream
  26. literarykitten reblogged this from effyeahlotr
  27. awesomeocelot reblogged this from mcigs
  28. marimosantoryu reblogged this from tolkienianos and added:
    I had great difficulty (it took several years) to get my story published, and it is not easy to say who is most...