Green Brother
The Green Brother is a mysterious character in the Father Christmas Letters. He is the son of Grandfather Yule and the brother of Father Christmas.
Like Father Christmas, the Green Brother collects food, clothes, and toys for poor children. Father's Christmas's green trousers were a present from his green brother.
Inspiration
While Deborah and Ivor Rogers argued in J.R.R. Tolkien: A Critical Biography (1982) that the Green Brother represented "the embodiment of ancient springtime fertility myths" (suggestive of the Green Knight), Kris Swank has suggested that the Green Brother:
The Green Brother would thus in the latter's interpretation rather be a Christmas figure than a summer figure.
Referencias
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