by Stanley Anderson » July 19th, 2006, 9:13 pm
Try Experiment in Criticsm and the essay On Stories (can't remember what book it is in off the top of my head). I believe he also talks (in a letter or some such -- could it be the three-way interview about science fiction? not sure) about not knowing if he liked a certain book because he hadn't read it enough times yet. It is a subject he mentioned often enough in letters since he certainly recognized its truth. And he suggests it at least implicitly in various places. It's the type of subject that is so pervasive in his thinking and practice that it might be hard to find a definitive passage.
--Stanley
…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.