XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk   
   From: mimus99@gmail.com   
      
   Dear Professor Tolkien:   
      
   We have read your novel with great interest.   
      
   It seems to us a very good fantasy adventure, and we have no difficulty in   
   accepting it for publication.   
      
   Our first reader suggested, and we do not disagree, that having the Council   
   of Elrond summon Gwaihir and the other eagles to Rivendell, from thence to   
   carry the Ring to Mount Doom, in your chapter 'Windlords to Mount Doom',   
   seems a little 'pat'.   
      
   Would it not make for an even better, if longer, novel to have the   
   Halflings continue as they have begun, to carry the Ring to Mount Doom,   
   where then, perhaps, the eagles could rescue them from the catastrophe?   
      
   This would also of course allow you more scope to develop more fully your   
   fascinating hints of geography and history.   
      
   It would, however, call for change to and delay in working in your final   
   chapters 'The Defenestration of Saruman', 'A Longer-Awaited Party', 'The   
   Elopement of Aragorn and Arwen' and 'Home Again'.   
      
   Please inform us what you think of this.   
      
   Respectfully,   
      
   Squiggle   
      
   Allen & Unwin   
      
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