Rayner Unwin

I think you're absolutely right.

By keeping him off stage, we get this brilliant, terrifying presence, and then the title, which does seem to be the only title he didn't find frustrating, right? 'Cause he always wanted to publish this as, as six volumes, not as three, and he, he wasn't particularly keen in his letters to Rayner Unwin about the titles that they were choosing.

Uh, but he was always fine with the title Lord of the Rings.

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

But the idea of publishing this work, or something like it, was apparently something he'd considered and even proposed to Rayner Unwin-

Yeah

... as we'll see.