In helping them, Rudolph regains his confidence, causing his nose to start glowing again, and he returns to Santa just in time to help him guide the sleigh once again. He then meets and befriends a group of rabbits who are searching for their missing babies. Feeling put upon by the other reindeer, Rudolph finds his nose is losing its glow and decides to leave the North Pole. The story, set a year after the original, finds Santa's original eight reindeer becoming envious of Rudolph's fame and not respecting him after Santa chooses Rudolph to work on toys at his workshop. Because of this, he is declared a hero and becomes a part of Santa's team.įollowing the advent of the song, May wrote a second story starring Rudolph, titled Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Shines Again, in 1954. When Santa arrives in his room on Christmas Eve, Rudolph attempts to hide his nose from him, only to learn that Santa wants him to use it to help guide him through the treacherous fog. In May's original poem, Rudolph is teased and taunted by the other young reindeer because of his shiny red nose by saying "His nose is a sight, it's red as a beet twice as big and twice as bright." Though he doesn't show it outside, when he goes to sleep, he is shown to be emotionally hurt by those words as he sadly cries himself to sleep. Although the story and song are not public domain, Rudolph himself has become a figure of Christmas folklore. and has been sold in numerous forms, most notably the song, written by May's brother-in-law, Johnny Marks. The story is owned by the Rudolph Company, L.P. In its first year of publication, 2.4 million copies of Rudolph's story were distributed by Montgomery Ward. The retailer had been buying and giving away coloring books for Christmas every year and it was decided that creating their own book would save money. May in 1939 as part of his employment with Montgomery Ward. Rudolph's story, which is told as a poem in the meter of A Visit from St.
Although he is initially teased and called names by his peers because of his nose, he becomes a hero when, on a particularly murky Christmas Eve, he is recruited by Santa to lead his reindeer team and guide his sleigh in the sky through the bad weather to complete his annual journey. He is Santa Claus' ninth and lead reindeer, who possesses an unusually red-colored nose that gives off its own light (bioluminescence), powerful enough to illuminate through inclement winter weather.
Rudolph is the titular character of the story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the famous song spun off from it.
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