This gorgeous oversized edition of Tolkien's famous illustrated letters from "Father Christmas" was published to commemorate the first-ever "letter from Father Christmas" in 1920. It contains a wealth of endearing letters, pictures, and decorated envelopes, and it promises to be a holiday feast for Tolkien fans of all ages. J.R.R. Tolkien's kids would get an envelope with a stamp from the North Pole every December. There would be a letter written in an odd, spidery hand with a gorgeous coloured painting or some sketches inside. The letters came from Santa Claus. They related fascinating stories about life at the North Pole, such as how all the reindeer got out and flung presents everywhere and how the accident-prone Polar Bear scaled the North Pole and fell through Father Christmas's house's ceiling. 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 humour 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.This classic festive book of Tolkien?s enchanting Father Christmas letters, written to his children between the 1920s and the 1940s, has been reworked into a sumptuous, new standard hardback edition. It contains high-quality digital reproductions of his wonderful letters and pictures, including a number of them appearing in this format for the first time, and a revised introduction by Baillie Tolkien.