6/29/2023 0 Comments Tolkien christmas letters![]() ![]() Mcllwaine continued: “They contained news from the North Pole where Father Christmas lived with his 'helper' the North Polar Bear, who often got into trouble and caused twice as much work for Father Christmas. The letters were delivered by the postman, who'd been persuaded by Tolkien to deliver them with the rest of the post, or arrived on the hearth with specially made stamps from the North Pole, marked with the cost of postage '2 kisses'. ![]() The Bodleian Library in Oxford will have some of them on display alongside the largest array of original Tolkien materials from the UK and the USA to be exhibited since the 1950s.Ĭatherine McIlwaine, Tolkien Archivist at the Bodleian Libraries and curator of the Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth exhibition, said: “The Father Christmas letters are some of my favourite items in the exhibition. These letters and the stories from Father Christmas were also richly illustrated by Tolkien, and now members of the public will be able to view them. The Father Christmas letter writing started in 1920 and continued until 1943, when Tolkien’s youngest child, Priscilla was 14. The question inspired Tolkien to pen a letter to John from Father Christmas. ![]() It was a tradition that J R R Tolkien kept going for 23 years and was first started when his three-year old son, John, asked who Father Christmas was and where he lived. ![]()
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