Repetitive and boring. The illustrations made it more palatable. This book tries to explain the origins of the Unicorn myth but never really accomplishes its goal. It wants us to believe in these creatures while at the same time kind of proving they didn't exist? Confusing.I've always loved Unicorns...
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...
4.5 starsAnother treasure from Tolkien and one I will probably re-read again very soon. A compact tail of Faery so descriptively fanciful that I myself almost became lost in the other worldly realm. I highly recommend it.
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