The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien's own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes. One of the most intriguing characters in The Lord of the Rings, the amusing and enigmatic Tom Bombadil, also...
show more
This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien's own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes.
One of the most intriguing characters in The Lord of the Rings, the amusing and enigmatic Tom Bombadil, also appears in verses said to have been written by Hobbits and preserved in the 'Red Book' with stories of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and their friends. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil collects these and other poems, mainly concerned with legends and jests of the Shire at the end of the Third Age.
show less
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780395082515 (039508251X)
Publish date: 1978-10-01
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Pages no: 63
Edition language: English
Thanks to Bettie for this audio book. Jacobi is wonderful reading these poems. Love! The Hoard is my favorite.
bookshelves: published-1962, poetry, paper-read, hardback, winter-20142015, re-visit-2014, re-read, seven-seas, fraudio, fantasy, storage-box-tbr, trolls, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, adventure, amusing Read from December 14, 1973 to December 14, 2014, read count: never enough Description:...
Originally posted here.The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is even shorter than Farmer Giles of Ham, but instead of prose it's a slim little book of poetry. The first two poems are indeed about our old pal Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo. In the first we learn a bit of his history with Old Man Willo...
10 years ago
Log in with Facebook 
