![]() Stories revealed that Father Christmas didn’t work just one day a year, but spent a good deal of energy fighting off goblins, watching the lights turn on an off (what we call the Northern Lights) and hanging out with his helper, North Polar Bear, and his cubs Paksu and Valkotukka. The letters were sometimes delivered by a postman who graciously included them with his usual deliveries. His tales from the North Pole arrived in envelopes bearing his handmade, official-looking North Pole postage stamps. Beginning in 1920, Tolkien would write every Christmas until 1943. ![]() Before he wrote The Hobbitt (1937) and the Lord of the Rings trilogy (1953-55), the English writer, poet, philologist and academic wrote letters from Father Christmas to his four children, John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla. Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) might have been better than most parents at keeping the fantasy of Santa Clause alive, or at least embellishing it. I have tried to draw a picture of it: but I am too shaky to do it properly and you can’t paint fizzing light can you?” You have never heard or seen anything like it. ![]() ![]() “Isn’t the North Polar Bear silly?… turned on all the Northern Lights for two years in one go. ![]()
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