Apart from the usual hassle of assembling and delivering gifts, he had to contend with a host of other challenges including but not limited to attacks by marauding goblins and the accidental destruction of the moon. Another would come each and every Christmas until 1943, two more children and much of a life’s work later.Įvery year, Tolkien’s Father Christmas had a great deal to report to John, Michael, and later Christopher and Priscilla. The toddler John Tolkien and his infant brother Michael received the first in 1920, just after their Great War veteran father was demobilized from the army and made the youngest professor at the University of Leeds. Before Tolkien had begun writing The Hobbit, let alone the Lord of the Rings trilogy, he was honing his signature storytelling and world-building skills by writing letters from Father Christmas. This must have held even truer for the family of the 20th century’s most celebrated creator of fantasies, J. But if Mom and Dad demonstrate sufficient commitment to the fantasy, so will the kids. It doesn’t take children long to suspect that Santa Claus is actually their parents.
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