For those who do not have this wonderful book of illustrations or the Father Christmas letters, here are several examples of Tolkien's artwork for his children's letters. I hope these will help stimulate discussion of Tolkien's art. The middle picture represents the stamps which Tolkien drew for some of the envelopes. The last picture represents the belovedly clumsy Polar Bear who features in several drawings.
I know that the usual Barrow Downs rules frown upon the posting of pictures which draw bandwidth and detract from writing, but I would think that in this case, the pictures should be acceptable, especially since the "Crazy Captions" thread appears to be acceptable. If the Admins decide otherwise, of course they will delete this post.
