3 Brilliant Festive Literary Facts
Merry Christmas to you! Here are 3 great festive facts you can share around your Christmas dinner and keep everyone entertained!
1. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote letters to his children from Father Christmas. Some scholars actually suggest that the Lord of the Rings character Gandalf was modelled after Father Christmas.
2.In Dickens’s A Christmas Carol tiny Tim was originally going to be called Little Fred.
3. In 1956 Harper Lee was given a Christmas gift from friends Michael Brown and Joy Williams of a years wages and a note which read; “You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas”. She accepted and in the next year she wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.
If you have any more festive facts let us know in the comments!