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This book is enhanced with content such as audio or video, resulting in a large file that may take longer to download than expected.

This enhanced e-book contains all the original of Tolkien's original handwritten letters, many never before published, Tolkien’s original color illustrations and audio recordings of the letters read by Sir Derek Jacobi and a full cast, bringing Tol... More

This book is enhanced with content such as audio or video, resulting in a large file that may take longer to download than expected.

This enhanced e-book contains all the original of Tolkien's original handwritten letters, many never before published, Tolkien’s original color illustrations and audio recordings of the letters read by Sir Derek Jacobi and a full cast, bringing Tolkien’s creation alive and providing readers with a truly engrossing multimedia experience.

Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or some sketches. The letters were from Father Christmas.

They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how all 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 into the dining-room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house!

Sometimes the Polar Bear would scrawl a note, and sometimes Ilbereth the Elf would write in his elegant flowing script, adding yet more life and humor to the stories. No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by the inventiveness and ‘authenticity’ of Tolkien’s Letters from Father Christmas.