TCG Letter #541

Tolkien thanks 'Master' Clements for his appreciation of The Hobbit and suggests that "the other books I have written which you might enjoy, Farmer Giles of Ham and The Lord of the Rings", explaining that "this is really three books", and adding in the autograph postscript "This may sound a bit 'stiff', but you did not tell me your name; but it was a very good letter".

See also Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Mrs. A. Mountfield • 17 January 1964 (#540) - the response to the teacher who had sent this student letter to Tolkien.