The letters from Santa Claus

The letters from Santa Claus (Original title: Father Christmas Letters (1976), Letters from Father Christmas (2004)) is a book by the British writer JRR Tolkien . It consists of letters Tolkien to his children from 1920 to 1942 in which he called Father Christmas , so as Santa Claus , North Pole annually writes from and describes his experiences of the last year. In addition to Santa Claus himself, his secretary Ibereth and a polar bear also have their say, each with their own handwriting. These letters were illustrated with drawings that Tolkien made himself.

The letters were not originally intended for publication, but after Tolkien's death they were edited by his daughter-in-law Baillie Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien's wife , and published in book form in 1976.

literature

JRR Tolkien: Letters from Father Christmas. HarperCollins , London 1999, ISBN missing.
JRR Tolkien: The letters from Santa Claus. Klett-Cotta , Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-608-93435-9 . (48 pages, paperback)
JRR Tolkien: Letters from Father Christmas. Harper Collins, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-007-28049-0 . (Paperback 159 pages)

Audio books

JRR Tolkien: The letters from Santa Claus. The Hörverlag , Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-89940-006-9 . (1 audio CD)

Web links

Image of a sample page on flickr.com
An introduction to the letters from Santa Claus , Memento on the Internet Archive here

Works by JRR Tolkien


Fiction	Songs for the Philologists (1936) • The Hobbit (1937) • Blatt von Tüftler (1947) • The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945) • Bauer Giles von Ham (1949) • The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953) • The Lord of the Rings (1954/55) • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Poems from the Red Book (1962) • Tree and Leaf (1964) • The Tolkien Reader (1966) • The Road Goes Ever On (1967) • Smith of Wootton Major (1967)
Posthumously published fiction	Santa's Letters (1976) • The Silmarillion (1977) • News from Middle-earth (1980) • Mr. Bliss (1982) • Bilbo's Farewell Song (1990) • The History of Middle-earth (12 volumes; 1983–1996) • The Lost Road and Other Writings (Volume 5, 1987) • Roverandom (1998) • The Children of Húrin (2007) • The History of The Hobbit (2007) • The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009) • King Arthur's Fall (2013) • The Story of Kullervo (2015) • Beren and Lúthien (2017) • The Fall of Gondolin (2018)
Academic works	A Middle English Vocabulary (1922) • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925) • Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography (1925) • The Devil's Coach-Horses (1925) • Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad (1929) • The Name Nodens (1932) • Sigelwara Land Parts I and II, in Medium Aevum (1932–1934) • Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale (1934) • Beowulf: The Monsters and Their Critics (1936) • The Reeve's Tale: version prepared for recitation at the "summer diversions" (1939) • On Fairy-Stories (1939) • Sir Orfeo (1944) • Ofermod and Beorhtnoth's Death (1953) • Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic inquiry ( 1953) • Ancrene Wisse : The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (1962) • English and Welsh (1963) • Introduction to Tree and Leaf (1964) • Contributions to the Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer) (1966) • Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical) (1966)
Posthumous academic publications	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , Pearl and Sir Orfeo (translations into modern English, 1975) • Finn and Hengest (1982) • The Monsters and the Critics (1983) • Beowulf and the Critics (2002) • Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (2014)