He made marvelous illustrated letters for his children for years, Verangel. Yes, that was a fertile, fire-up imagination the man had, and varied ways of expressing it. Lucky us! I didn't know the extent of it until I got a Tolkien Christmas book a couple of years ago.
Here are links to posts I did last Christmas and the Christmas before about Tolkien's Christmas letters, which have some brief extracts and copies of selected fave illustrations....
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Date: 2011-12-24 02:31 pm (UTC)Here are links to posts I did last Christmas and the Christmas before about Tolkien's Christmas letters, which have some brief extracts and copies of selected fave illustrations....
2009: http://mechtild.livejournal.com/112428.html
2010: http://mechtild.livejournal.com/121307.html
Have a lovely holiday, Verangel!