Letters From Father Christmas

Letters From Father Christmas
by J.R.R. Tolkien

Letters From Father Christmas
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Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Brand: Houghton Mifflin
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-11-15
ISBN: 0618512659
Number of pages: 111
Publisher: Mariner Books

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Book Review: Its Not Middle earth, But Its Tolkien At His Best
Summary: 5 Stars

Life in the Tolkien family in the 1920s and 1930s had its ups and downs just like any family, but the Tolkien children had one major benefit at least, a father who could tell the most thrilling tales imaginable. At Christmas the pleasure increased one hundred fold, for the Tolkiens were the only family around who actually received real letters from Father Christmas! Waiting on the mantelpiece, or handed in by the postman with a special North Pole stamp, or arriving in any number of other delightful ways, each Christmas news from the North Pole arrived and was read aloud by the children's father, J.R.R. Tolkien himself. Even better, the letters were always profusely illustrated by Father Christmas himself.

The stories told in these letters are always exciting. Father Christmas and his friend the Polar Bear had to deal with all sorts of exigencies like goblin invasions each year as they worked to get ready for their annual Christmas journey. Each letter was handwritten in a suitably shaky script by Father Christmas, and each letter included delightful color drawings illustrating the adventures it contained.

Children will love these letters because the fantasy, like everything Tolkien created, is real and engrossing. Adults will love the letters too, both for the memories of their own youthful Christmases, but also for the glimpses of Tolkien's "other" fantasies about Middle earth that may be spotted here and there in the letters.

Summary of Letters From Father Christmas

Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien?s children. Inside would be a letter in a strange, spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or painting. The letters were from Father Christmas.
They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone North Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas?s house into the dining room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house, and many more.
No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by Tolkien?s inventiveness in this classic holiday treat.

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