Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in a strange, spidery* handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or some sketches.

    The letters were from Father Christmas.

    They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how the reindeer got loose and scattered presents everywhere; how the accident-prone* North Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house; 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 humor to the stories.

    This updated version contains a wealth of new material, including letters and pictures missing from early editions. No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by the inventiveness and “authenticity*” of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Letters from Father Christmas.”

    The book is available at amazon.cn.(SD-Agencies)