Farmer Giles Of Ham
by:
J.R.R. Tolkien (author)
Roger Garland (illustrator)
A tale of the days when giants and dragons walked the kingdom, this tells the story of Farmer Giles of Ham who is fat, unheroic and red-bearded. But he is also fortunate and shrewd. When a large and stupid giant blunders into his fields it begins a surprising chain of events.
A tale of the days when giants and dragons walked the kingdom, this tells the story of Farmer Giles of Ham who is fat, unheroic and red-bearded. But he is also fortunate and shrewd. When a large and stupid giant blunders into his fields it begins a surprising chain of events.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780261102088 (0261102087)
Publish date: 1991-12-12
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 79
Edition language: English
Originally posted here.Farmer Giles of Ham pretty much epitomizes everything I love about Tolkien. We get a winking narrator, similar to the narrator of The Hobbit; there's a hand-drawn map; it's full of humour and little philological jokes and asides; best of all, it does what he set out to do wit...
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