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Letters from Father Christmas

J.R.R. Tolkien,

Baillie Tolkien (Editor)

Start date: December 1, 2018

Finish date: December 31, 2018

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Jan 03, 2021 Ashleigh rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

What a delight! Father Christmas writes illustrated letters to the Tolkien children over the years, full of North Pole adventures with goblins, elves, gnomes, and the Polar Bear. New languages are discovered and Father Christmas illustrates all the adventures. The last letters to the last daughter during WWII show some of what the children were experiencing, and remind Priscilla that Father Christmas goes away for a little while when children grow up, but comes back again when they have children ...more

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Dec 27, 2020 Amanda rated it it was amazing

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Winter 2020 (December);

Part of the round of this years' new seasonable classics.

I was so deeply delighted by this book.

I was sold the second I realized it was Tolkein writing to his ow children as Father Christmas every year as they were growing up. I was so deeply attached so quickly to the kind, compassionate, understanding voice of Father Christmas (as well as Polar Bear and our elf, both later on). I was poignant moved at each point where the letter's references which children were gettin ...more

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