J. R. R. Tolkien's children didn't just wait for Father Christmas because of the presents: they also received a letter illustrated with pictures from him every year! He told them about his house, his friends, and what was happening in the North Pole. The first letter arrived in 1920, and they came every Christmas for twenty years. The snowy envelope - which, of course, was decorated with a North Pole postmark - was sometimes found in the house the morning after Father Christmas's visit, other times it was brought by the postman. In this book we present Father Christmas's shaky handwriting and almost all the pictures he attached to the letters, as well as the alphabet that Ice Bear edited from the goblin drawings he saw in the caves when he got lost; and the letter that he sent to the children with this special writing is not left out either.

Author: J.R.R Tolkien