Letters from Father Christmas (Paperback)

from PDCRead

In 1920 the Tolkien children started receiving letters from Father Nicholas Christmas. In the letters he starts to tell his children the stories and events of that year, and what he has done. There are a number of characters that surround Father Christmas, from a clumsy polar bear, elves and the ...

from ClicksClan

Rereading this book this year made me feel like of sad as I might not ever have a child to do the whole Father Christmas letters thing with. Also sad to see the children growing up until even Priscilla stops writing to Father Christmas. The last two letters are heartbreaking as Tolkien prepares t...

from bell7

Starting in 1920, the Tolkien children received letters from Father Christmas, complete with pictures and funny stories about the North Polar Bear and others in Father Christmas' household. This book collects the letters from 1925 to 1938 and the "final letter" (no date given, but it's sometime d...

from souloftherose

When Tolkien's eldest son was 3, he began to write letters from Father Christmas to his children each year. These letters along with their beautiful illustrated are reproduced in this book and although only 48 pages it was a delight to read. I managed to find an old 1976 edition in our local char...

from StormRaven

Before The Lord of the Rings, before The Hobbit, when Middle-Earth itself was nothing more than an embryonic idea that manifested as a handful of unpublished poems, Tolkien was writing for an eager audience. Like many children, Tolkien's offspring wrote letters to Father Christmas every year, but...