Throughout the period in question, the older children kept the secret as they The true author of the letters who was of course J.R.R. With the atmosphere of the published work, the introduction evades the issue of The adventures developed elements obviously emanating from the same imagination The Polar Bear’s nephews joined Father Christmas and the North Polar Bear, and Their apparentĪuthenticity was enhanced by various devices including letters by helpers ofįather Christmas to the children, and the children also wrote to the NorthĬourse of the 23 year period, Snow-elves, Red Gnomes, Snow-men, Cave-bears, and The world of the North Pole evolved and became more exciting. A letterĪrrived every year until the end of 1943, and during that time, the letters and His second son Michael had been born in October of that year, the third,Ĭhristopher, joined them in 1924 and their sister Priscilla in 1929. The first one received in 1920 by J.R.R.Tolkien’s three-year-old firstborn son Letters I described the history of the Father Christmas letters, beginning with Introduction to the various editions of the books based on the Father Christmas
You will find a selection of the illustrations created for his children and sent "from the North Pole" in our “Pictures from Father Christmas” Gallery. Tolkien's Letters from Father Christmas in 1976, three years after the death of the author. ~ Article written by Baillie Tolkien, who prepared for publication J.R.R.
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