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020 | _a9780965463775 | ||
024 | _a51572700 | ||
050 | _aPR6039.O32 | ||
082 | _a823.912 | ||
100 | 1 | _aJ. R. R. Tolkien | |
245 | 1 | _aA Tolkien Miscellany | |
260 | _bQuality Paperback Bookclub | ||
300 | _a369 pages | ||
520 | _aThis book, with illustrations, gathers some of J.R.R. Tolkien's least-known and hardest-to-find works in one volume. These include "Smith of Wootton Major (story of a magical gift concealed in the most amazing cake), "Farmer Giles of Ham" (a dragon terrorizing the English village of Ham and the townspeople only hope is a local farmer with an inflated reputation of chasing away giants), "Tree and Leaf" (a work consisting of Tolkien's groundbreaking essay "On Fairy-stores" - a most readable examination of the meaning of fantasy), "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" (sixten poems from the Red Book) and "Sir Gawain and teh Green Knight" (Tolkien's first career translation of medieval poetry). | ||
650 | _aFantasy | ||
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