Father Christmas Letters: 1920 - 1924 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Estelyn Telcontar · 12-12-2011, 03:13 PM

Lal, thank you for that interesting information on the building blocks! I was wondering what they might be like. The Picabrix remind me of the wooden Tinkertoys I played with as a child.

Nice to see Legate joining the seasonal avvie club with the FCL picture! Yes, the Finnish influence will show up more as the years go by. The picture of FC flying over Oxford was drawn in 1932 and can be seen there, as part of an whole page of illustrations. I don't think anything was omitted from the early years - apparently that's all that there was, or at least all that survived. Remember, the children were very young at the beginning, and Tolkien's stories always grow in the telling!

12-12-2011, 03:13 PM	#1
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Lal, thank you for that interesting information on the building blocks! I was wondering what they might be like. The Picabrix remind me of the wooden Tinkertoys I played with as a child. Nice to see Legate joining the seasonal avvie club with the FCL picture! Yes, the Finnish influence will show up more as the years go by. The picture of FC flying over Oxford was drawn in 1932 and can be seen there, as part of an whole page of illustrations. I don't think anything was omitted from the early years - apparently that's all that there was, or at least all that survived. Remember, the children were very young at the beginning, and Tolkien's stories always grow in the telling! __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'