#(that is tolkien's entire oevre contained in one person)

[fictionadventurer]

It's a little-known fact that the actual reason Tolkien objected to the presence of Father Christmas in Narnia was that his children had been receiving letters from the real Father Christmas for years, and he was nothing like that.

#lol #anyway it's almost time to reread #letters from father christmas #(tolkien's true labor of love) #(lotr and the silmarillion both were labors of love of course) #(but they were of love for the things he enjoyed and incidentally for the people he loved) #(while this was mostly for love of his children and incidentally about the things he loved) #(but really what could be a better fit for tolkien than father christmas?) #(a figure of northern mythology who works with elves and turns his powers toward the glorification of the christ child) #(that is tolkien's entire oevre contained in one person) #the chronicles of narnia #tolkien #c.s. lewis