The Tolkien Reader
- ISBN-10
- 0756910722
- ISBN-13
- 9780756910723
- Series
- The Tolkien Reader
- Category
- Adventure stories, English
- Pages
- 251
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986-11-01
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning
- Author
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Description
An invitation to Tolkien's world. This rich treasury includes Tolkien's most beloved short fiction plus his essay on fantasy. FARMER GILES OF HAM. An imaginative history of the distant and marvelous past that introduces the rather unheroic Farmer Giles, whose efforts to capture a somewhat untrustworthy dragon will delight readers everywhere. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL. A collection of verse in praise of Tom Bombadil, that staunch friend of the Hobbits in THE LORD OF THE RINGS. ON FAIRY-STORIES. Professor Tolkien's now-famous essy on the form of the fairy story and the treatment of fantasy.
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