Letters from Father Christmas / J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Baillie Tolkien.
Record details
- ISBN: 0358389887
- ISBN: 9780358389880
- ISBN: 0358389887
- ISBN: 9780358389880
- Physical Description: 208 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition: Centenary edition.
- Publisher: Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | For fans of Tolkien and lovers of Christmas holidays, Letters from Father Christmas is a gorgeous, festive gift featuring a wealth of letters that Tolkien created for his children, appearing in this format for the first time. Published on the 100th anniversary of the first letter Tolkien sent to his firstborn, John, in 1920, this handsome edition will also include an introduction from daughter-in-law Baillie Tolkien, reflecting on the centenary anniversary of the letters, as well as a personal note by Tolkien himself reproduced for the first time. |
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Subject: | Santa Claus > Fiction. Christmas stories. Christmas stories, English. |
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- 0 of 1 copy available at Somers Public Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Somers Public Library | 394.2663 TOL (Text)
Letters From Father Christmas: Donated by the Friends of the Somers Public Library to honor Josh Chlebowski for bringing Santa to the children of Somers during the pandemic year 2020.
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34042149348122 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
Author Notes
Letters from Father Christmas, Centenary Edition
A writer of fantasies, Tolkien, a professor of language and literature at Oxford University, was always intrigued by early English and the imaginative use of language. In his greatest story, the trilogy The Lord of the Rings (1954--56), Tolkien invented a language with vocabulary, grammar, syntax, even poetry of its own. Though readers have created various possible allegorical interpretations, Tolkien has said: "It is not about anything but itself. (Certainly it has no allegorical intentions, general, particular or topical, moral, religious or political.)" In The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962), Tolkien tells the story of the "master of wood, water, and hill," a jolly teller of tales and singer of songs, one of the multitude of characters in his romance, saga, epic, or fairy tales about his country of the Hobbits. Tolkien was also a formidable medieval scholar, as evidenced by his work, Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics (1936) and his edition of Anciene Wisse: English Text of the Anciene Riwle. Among his works published posthumously, are The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur, which was edited by his son, Christopher. In 2013, his title, The\Hobbit (Movie Tie-In) made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography)