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Cover artist
  
Alan Lee

Publication date
  
1980

Pages
  
342 pp (US edition)

Originally published
  
1980

Genre
  
Fantasy

Illustrator
  
Pauline Baynes

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (hardback)

ISBN
  
978-0395689998

Author
  
J. R. R. Tolkien

Publisher
  
Allen & Unwin

Country
  
United Kingdom

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J R R Tolkien books, Speculative fiction books

Poems and Stories is a compilation of some of the lesser-known writings of J. R. R. Tolkien released in 1980 by George Allen & Unwin (UK) and in 1994 by Houghton Mifflin (North America).

Contents

  • The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, a play in alliterative verse on the historical Battle of Maldon.
  • "Farmer Giles of Ham", a novella about an English farmer who encounters a dragon.
  • "Smith of Wootton Major", another novella, set partly in Faerie and partly in the area near Oxford.
  • "Leaf by Niggle", a highly allegorical short story often (including here) published in tandem with the essay "On Fairy-Stories" as Tree and Leaf.
  • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, a collection of poems claiming to be "of hobbit origin" (and the only item in the compilation that is directly related to Middle-earth and The Lord of the Rings).

    • References

    Poems and Stories (by JRR Tolkien) Wikipedia
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