Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. TOLKIEN (1892-1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic extraordinary works of fiction as 'The Hobbit', 'The Lord of the Rings', and 'The Silmarillion.' His books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide. "Tolkien at his relaxed and ingenious best." The Times of London Now, for the first time, these letters are brought to life with specially arranged holiday music.
Tolkien received letters from the North Pole - from Father Christmas himself! They told wonderful stories of mischief and disaster, adventures, and battles: how the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place, how the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas's house, and many others. Don’t forget old Father Christmas, when you light your tree.Can you imagine writing to Father Christmas and actually getting a reply? For more than twenty years, the children of J.R.R. So, my dears, I hope you will be happy this Christmas and not quarrel, and will have some good games with your Railway all together. I (and also my Green Brother) have had to do some collecting of food and clothes, and toys too, for the children whose fathers and mothers and friends cannot give them anything, sometimes not even dinner.
If you think we have not read them you are wrong but if you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite as many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people. We have both, the old Polar Bear and I, enjoyed having so many nice letters from you and your pets.
I send as much love as ever, in fact more. You seem to be most interested in Railways just now, so I am sending you mostly things of that sort. “I hope you will like the little things I have sent you.
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