Letters from santa tolkien6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Mark Twain famously wrote a letter from “Santa Claus” to his elder daughter, Susie Clemens. Tolkien was not the first author to produce letters from Father Christmas for his children. In 2018, the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford will exhibit the letters, alongside other manuscripts, artwork, maps, letters and artefacts from Tolkien collections around the world. It would be written in his spidery hand (he would, after all, be a very old man) and illustrated with funny scenes from life in the North Pole. So inevitably, his family traditions were something rather special.Įvery year, from 1920 to 1942, the Tolkien children – first John, and later Michael, Christopher and Priscilla – would receive a letter from Father Christmas. Yet this was a man whose rich imagination brought to life an entire world with thousands of years of legendary history described different orders of creatures, wars and battles even invented languages. ![]() Tolkien dedicated considerable time and effort to making Christmas a joyful time for his young children. ![]()
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