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Publication date
  
September 1966

OCLC
  
49979134

Author
  
J. R. R. Tolkien

Country
  
United Kingdom

Genres
  
Play, Essay, Poetry

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
1966

Publisher
  
Ballantine Books

Preceded by
  
Tree and Leaf

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Pages
  
xvi, 24, 112, 79, 64 pp (contents separately paginated)

ISBN
  
0-345-34506-1 (reprint)

Similar
  
J R R Tolkien books, Fantasy books

The Tolkien Reader is an anthology of works by J. R. R. Tolkien. It includes a variety of short stories, poems, a play and some non-fiction by Tolkien. It compiles material previously published as three separate shorter books (Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham, and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) together with one additional piece and introductory material. It was published in 1966 by Ballantine Books in the USA.

Contents

  • "Publisher's Note"
  • "Tolkien's Magic Ring", by Peter S. Beagle
  • "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son"
  • Tree and Leaf
  • "On Fairy-Stories"
  • "Leaf by Niggle"
  • Farmer Giles of Ham
  • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
  • "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil"
  • "Bombadil Goes Boating"
  • "Errantry"
  • "Princess Mee"
  • "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late"
  • "The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon"
  • "The Stone Troll"
  • "Perry-the-Winkle"
  • "The Mewlips"
  • "Oliphaunt"
  • "Fastitocalon"
  • "Cat"
  • "Shadow-bride"
  • "The Hoard"
  • "The Sea-Bell"
  • "The Last Ship"

    • References

    The Tolkien Reader Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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