“Twas the Night Before Christmas” and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Tinfang Warble Following family tradition, the bedtime book I read to my near-four-year-old son on Christmas Eve was “The Night Before Christmas”, aka “A Visit from St. Nicholas”, by Clement Clarke Moore*. I used my mum’s old copy of the poem, a… By Dimitra Fimi | 31st December 2016 | Christmas, Fantasy Literature, Folklore, Myth and Folklore, Tolkien | No Comments | Read more
