TCG Letter #532 / Carpenter Letter #183

A note on this text: These notes from Tolkien were intended for his own use and satisfaction and strictly speaking are not a letter meant for correspondence. Humphrey Carpenter in his commentary on the entry says that - "A comment, apparently written for Tolkien’s own satisfaction and not sent or shown to anyone else, on ‘At the End of the Quest, Victory’, a review of The Return of the King by W. H. Auden in the New York Times Book Review, 22 January 1956. The text given here is a rewriting at some later date of an earlier version, now lost, which was in all probability written in 1956."