Titre: Aurora Borealis
Artiste: J.R.R. Tolkien

1926

Father Christmas' drawing shows what happened when his helper, the mischievous North Polar Bear, turned on the tap for the 'Rory Bory Aylis' and used up all the Northern Lights for two years in one go. MS. Tolkien Drawings 46. Reproduced with kind permission of The Tolkien Estate Limited for the Bodleian Libraries exhibition Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth.

© The Tolkien Estate Limited 1976.