4.5
Letters from Father Christmas
This CD comprises a festive reading of letters written by Tolkein to his children, in the guise of Father Christmas, over a period of twenty years. The letters tell the adventures - and misadventures! - of Father Christmas’s life at the North Pole, and of his helpers - the mischievous North Polar Bear and sensible Ilbereth the Elf.
Children's BooksScience Fiction & FantasyFantasy & MagicLiterature & FictionFantasyEpic
RELEASED1999
PUBLISHERHarperCollins
LENGTH111
LANGUAGEEN
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the 1960s he was taken up by many members of the nascent "counter-culture" largely because of his concern with environmental issues. In 1997 he came top of three British polls, organised respectively by Channel 4 / Waterstone's, the Folio Society, and SFX, the UK's leading science fiction media magazine, amongst discerning readers asked to vote for the greatest book of the 20th century. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biography.html
4.5
Letters from Father Christmas
by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Derek Jacobi
This CD comprises a festive reading of letters written by Tolkein to his children, in the guise of Father Christmas, over a period of twenty years. The letters tell the adventures - and misadventures! - of Father Christmas’s life at the North Pole, and of his helpers - the mischievous North Polar Bear and sensible Ilbereth the Elf.
Children's BooksScience Fiction & FantasyFantasy & MagicLiterature & FictionFantasyEpic
RELEASED1999
PUBLISHERHarperCollins
LENGTH111
LANGUAGEEN
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the 1960s he was taken up by many members of the nascent "counter-culture" largely because of his concern with environmental issues. In 1997 he came top of three British polls, organised respectively by Channel 4 / Waterstone's, the Folio Society, and SFX, the UK's leading science fiction media magazine, amongst discerning readers asked to vote for the greatest book of the 20th century. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biography.html
