LETTERS FROM FATHER
CHRISTMAS
By J R R Tolkien
Harper Collins - October 2001
ISBN 0261103857 - Hardback
Juvenile / Teenage - Fantasy
Reviewed by Rachel
A Hyde, MyShelf.com
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Between the years 1920
and 1943 Tolkien's children received some very special mail every Christmas
- letters from Santa himself! Beautifully illustrated and delivered in
various ways they told of all kinds of things that happened at the North
Pole, and the folk who lived there with Santa. There is the accident-prone
North Polar Bear and his two cousins who cause havoc, the wicked goblins
and of course the elves and gnomes, not to mention snowfolk and cave bears.
The letters came of course from their father Tolkien, and here can be
seen some of his wonderful imagination taking shape. Read how the North
Pole came to be snapped in half, why Santa had to move house, what a polar
bear's writing looks like and how Santa had to defend his home from goblins.
No self-respecting coffee
table ought to be without this book at Christmas time - one to keep and
treasure.
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