They even took to sending letters to Santa, enquiring as to his health and furnishing him with their Christmas lists. Among these is his delightful, whimsical collection of Letters from Father Christmas.īeginning in 1920 with a letter to his first child, John, and concluding in 1943 with a final, poignant letter to his youngest daughter, Priscilla, Tolkien’s letters became a part of his children’s Christmases. Epic in the breadth of its world building, epic also in the span of its action and, finally, epic in the scope of its moral vision, Tolkien’s work has enchanted the world – to use his own language – for decades.Īs a result of his fame and the interest in his works, a number of treasures that would otherwise have gone unnoticed have been unearthed and published. JRR Tolkien exists in the minds of many as the creator the 20th century’s great epic, The Lord of the Rings. Ruadhán Jones explores a little-known Christmas treasure by JRR Tolkien
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