Farmer Giles of Ham
by:
J.R.R. Tolkien (author)
Roger Garland (illustrator)
Farmer Giles of Ham is a light-hearted satire for readers of all ages that tells the tale of a reluctant hero who must save his village from a dragon.
Farmer Giles of Ham is a light-hearted satire for readers of all ages that tells the tale of a reluctant hero who must save his village from a dragon.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780044407232 (0044407238)
Publish date: 1990-08-01
Publisher: Unwin Paperbacks
Pages no: 96
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...