The Adventures of Tom Bombadil: And Other Verses from The Red Book

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Houghton Mifflin, 1963 - Fiction - 63 pages
Verse about trolls. elves, the sea, knights, strange beasts and birds and a spirited fellow unusual Tom Bornbadil, who weds a river-nymph.

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Contents

PREFACE page
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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil II
11
Bombadil goes Boating
17
Copyright

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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil: And Other Verses from The Red Book
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Snippet view - 1963
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Snippet view - 1991

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About the author (1963)

A writer of fantasies, Tolkien, a professor of language and literature at Oxford University, was always intrigued by early English and the imaginative use of language. In his greatest story, the trilogy The Lord of the Rings (1954--56), Tolkien invented a language with vocabulary, grammar, syntax, even poetry of its own. Though readers have created various possible allegorical interpretations, Tolkien has said: "It is not about anything but itself. (Certainly it has no allegorical intentions, general, particular or topical, moral, religious or political.)" In The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962), Tolkien tells the story of the "master of wood, water, and hill," a jolly teller of tales and singer of songs, one of the multitude of characters in his romance, saga, epic, or fairy tales about his country of the Hobbits. Tolkien was also a formidable medieval scholar, as evidenced by his work, Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics (1936) and his edition of Anciene Wisse: English Text of the Anciene Riwle. Among his works published posthumously, are The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur, which was edited by his son, Christopher. In 2013, his title, The Hobbit (Movie Tie-In) made The New York Times Best Seller List.

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TitleThe Adventures of Tom Bombadil: And Other Verses from The Red Book
AuthorJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Illustrated byPauline Baynes
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherHoughton Mifflin, 1963
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 13, 2008
ISBN039508251X, 9780395082515
Length63 pages
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