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All right, so this is the letter I have in my book titled as the "last letter". At least the Windbeam is mentioned, as well as the thing that too few children write to FC, and the battle, of course. I find it appropriate to have the battle there, but I wonder, did it have anything to do with some simultaneously occuring real World War-battle? It would make sense, but then, 1941 is rather soon still for any "decisive battles"! (I don't know how it "seemed" to British people at that point, i.e. how they felt about the war exactly at that point, if they expected it to end or not... by my "objective logic" and knowledge of what was happening back then on the global scale, I would say no, but then again, maybe people back then saw things differently. Or was it reflecting the victories in the Battle of Britain? That was there already a year ago, though. Of course, I am not saying that the battle has to have any RL analogy - of course, knowing Tolkien, I am certainly sure he won't write it as an analogy - but still, I think it would make sense for the writing to reflect in some way his mood or to reflect the happenings in the world, since apparently, the Letters do reflect the happenings in the world - after all, the War was really going on and it is mentioned in the letters.)
The letter also ends with the hope that old friends might remember their old friends when they have their own home and kids, right?
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories
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