In 1942, he begins his letter by blaming his assistant (a Polar Bear, of course) for losing her letter to him. After the older boys have left home, Father Christmas writes only to the youngest child, Priscilla. Who knew there was so much going on at Santa’s home?Īfter finishing the book, it is those last letters that stick with me. We also get the chance to see what presents they wanted and how new characters from the North Pole are introduced to them through the years. We can imagine their giddiness when they received a letter with the special “North Pole Postage” stamp on it. Mixed in are the joys of the holiday year after year as readers grow up alongside the children.
With spidery handwriting accompanied by illustrations that might remind you of Middle-earth, this compilation of Tolkien’s letters has both the outlandish - such as a goblin attack on the North Pole - and the somber - as Father Christmas laments the “horrible war” as the letters drift into the 1940s. Tolkien’s “Letters from Father Christmas.”
Over more than twenty years of correspondence between the children and the Man from the North Pole, readers are taken on the real-life journey of imagination and love between a father and his children in J.R.R. Tolkien’s children, John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla. This is the closing of the final letter Father Christmas wrote to any of Edith and J.R.R.
“Very much love from your old friend, Father Christmas.” (Graphic by Marshall Sunner | Collegian Media Group)
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