forces in and near Bastogne have been encircled by strong German armored units. Commander of the encircled town of Bastogne. 3 The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski In Letters from Father Christmas, Tolkien has compiled all these short stories into one book for you to enjoy with your children. These letters shared Father Christmas’s experiences that year - from an accident-prone polar bear to goblin wars in caves beneath the house - and are riddled with life lessons. Tolkien’s children would receive a letter from ‘Father Christmas’. Don’t forget old Father Christmas, when you light your tree.”Įvery December, J.R.R. So, my dears, I hope you will be happy this Christmas and not quarrel, and will have some good games with your Railway all together. I (and also my Green Brother) have had to do some collecting of food and clothes, and toys too, for the children whose fathers and mothers and friends cannot give them anything, sometimes not even dinner. If you think we have not read them you are wrong but if you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite as many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people. We have both, the old Polar Bear and I, enjoyed having so many nice letters from you and your pets. I send as much love as ever, in fact more. You seem to be most interested in Railways just now, so I am sending you mostly things of that sort. “I hope you will like the little things I have sent you.
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