The adventures of Tom Bombadil

and other verses from The red book

[1st American ed.]
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The adventures of Tom Bombadil

and other verses from The red book

[1st American ed.]
  • 3.7 (3 ratings) ·
  • 39 Want to read
  • 8 Have read

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book is a collection of poetry written by J. R. R. Tolkien. A volume of songs, rhymes and poems, they tell of Tom's encounters with Goldberry, Old Man Willow, the Badger-folk, and with the ghostly Barrow-wight.

Other poems in the book are an assortment of bestiary verse and fairy tale rhyme. Three of the poems appear in The Lord of the Rings, as well. The book is part of Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium and the Middle-earth canon.

The book, like the first edition of The Fellowship of the Ring, is presented as if it is an actual translation from the Red Book of Westmarch, and contains some background information on the world of Middle-earth which is not found elsewhere: e.g. the name of the tower at Dol Amroth and the names of the Seven Rivers of Gondor. There is also some fictional 'background' information of those poems, linking them to the Hobbit folklore and literature as well as their actual writers (some of them were written by Samwise Gamgee).

The volume includes what W. H. Auden considered Tolkien's best poem, The Sea-Bell, subtitled Frodos Dreme. It is a piece of great metrical and rhythmical complexity that recounts a journey to a strange land beyond the sea.

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English
Pages
63

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Cover of: Les Aventures de Tom Bombadil
Les Aventures de Tom Bombadil
1992, Christian Bourgois editeur
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Cover of: The adventures of Tom Bombadil
The adventures of Tom Bombadil: and other verses from the Red book
1978, Houghton Mifflin Company
in English
Cover of: The adventures of Tom Bombadil
The adventures of Tom Bombadil: and other verses from The red book
1963, Houghton Mifflin Company
in English - [1st American ed.]

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Edition Notes

Published in
Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
821.912
Library of Congress
PR6039.O32 A6 1963

The Physical Object

Pagination
63 p.
Number of pages
63

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL14082895M
Internet Archive
isbn_001729293
LCCN
63010658
Library Thing
3203497

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