Father Christmas Letters: 1936 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-07-2012, 06:07 AM

If you do translate that letter, please post the results - I'd love to see what it means and am too short on time to do it myself!

Guinevere · 01-08-2012, 10:42 AM

I "wasted" some time deciphering PB's 1932 letter in Goblin Alphabet.

here is the transcription:

Quote:

"I wish you a lovely happy Christmas and a splendid New Year with lots of fun and good luck at school. You are getting so clever now what with Latin and French and Greek that you will easily read this and see. Much love from P.B."

In the 1932 letter F.C. had written that PB had made an alphabet from the marks in the caves and sent a short letter in this alphabet and he added " I dare say he would send you a copy of his alphabet if you wrote and asked. By the way he writes it in columns from top to bottom"
Apparently none of the children had asked for it then (Michael was 12, Christopher 8 and Priscilla only 3) and I am sure that in 1936 it was Christopher (then 12) who asked for the alphabet!

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-08-2012, 11:13 AM

Thank you, Guinevere! That's delightful! I hadn't thought about the reason for the delay, and your conjecture sounds plausible!

01-07-2012, 06:07 AM	#1
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	If you do translate that letter, please post the results - I'd love to see what it means and am too short on time to do it myself! __________________ '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...'

01-08-2012, 11:13 AM	#3
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Thank you, Guinevere! That's delightful! I hadn't thought about the reason for the delay, and your conjecture sounds plausible! __________________ '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...'