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{{letter infobox
| #=94
| to=[[Christopher Tolkien]]
| date=[[1944#December|December 28]], [[1944]]
| subject=The power of literature, hoarfrost at Christmas, ancient Greek "democracy"
}}{{letter|94}}
==Summary==
Tolkien was happy that [[Christopher Tolkien|Christopher]] had sent many letters and that more of [[The Lord of the Rings|Ring]] had arrived. His son liked it even though it seemed to have added to his homesickness. Tolkien commented that it just showed the difference between life and literature. Anyone actually in [[Cirith Ungol|Kirith Ungol]] would wish to exchange it for any other place in the world, save [[Mordor]] itself. One thing that literature taught was that we have in us an eternal element, free from care and fear, able to survey life and evil with serenity. He counted it a triumph that the two last chapters could distract his son from the noise of the Air Crew Room!

The weather was one of the chief events of Christmas. A heavy fog had frozen and created hoarfrost such as he could only remember three times before in his life. One of the most lovely events of Northern nature, said Tolkien, describing the dim silent misty world with jewelry of rime, laced netted cobwebs, and diamond patterns. The next day the sun came out and all was breathtakingly beautiful. In the moonlight it was a vision of another world or time.

[[wikipedia:Anthony Eden|Mr. Eden]] in the House of Commons had expressed pain at occurrences in Greece, "the home of democracy". Was he ignorant or insincere, asked Tolkien. In Greek it was not a word of approval but nearly "mob-rule". The great Greek states, especially Athens at its time of high art and power, were rather Dictatorships.
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