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Cover artist
  
Alan Lee

Publication date
  
1997, 2008

Originally published
  
1997

Illustrator
  
Alan Lee

Publisher
  
HarperCollins

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9/10
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Language
  
English

ISBN
  
978-0-00-725754-6

Author
  
J. R. R. Tolkien

Genre
  
Fantasy

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Media type
  
Print (hardback & paperback)

Pages
  
403 pp (1st edition); 432 pp (2nd edition)

Similar
  
J R R Tolkien books, Middle-earth books, Fantasy books

Tales from the Perilous Realm is a compilation of some of the lesser-known writings of J. R. R. Tolkien published in 1997 by HarperCollins without illustrations. An enlarged edition was released in 2008 with illustrations by Alan Lee.

Contents

The 2008 edition includes:

  • "Farmer Giles of Ham", a short story about an English farmer who encounters a dragon. Tolkien's title page, written in Latin, is missing from this edition. Garm, originally drawn by Pauline Baynes as a greyhound, is drawn by Alan Lee in the 2008 edition as a mastiff.
  • "Smith of Wootton Major", another short story, set partly in Faerie and partly in the area near Oxford.
  • "Leaf by Niggle", a highly allegorical short story.
  • "On Fairy-Stories", an essay which discusses the fairy-story as a literary form and is usually published together with "Leaf by Niggle".
  • 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).
  • "Roverandom", a novella (longer than the others, shorter than The Hobbit).

    • The 1997 edition does not include "Roverandom" (which was first published in 1998) or the essay "On Fairy-Stories". It is also missing commentary by Thomas Shippey and the Alan Lee illustrations.

    References

    Tales from the Perilous Realm Wikipedia
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