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The Tolkien Reader

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Author(s):J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):Pauline Baynes
Publisher(s): Ballantine
Year Published: 1966
Type: Softcover
Genre: Adventure
British
Fantasy - English
Poetry - Ballads
Poetry - Humorous
Poetry - Lyric
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 286
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 748288233

Description

This collection includes The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son, Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.

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Other Editions

Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)

The story of a brave farmer and an evil dragon by the author of The Hobbit.

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)

Poems that shed further light on middle-earth.

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin
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Tree and Leaf (1965)

J.R.R. Tolkien’s ideas on the writing of fairy stories and an example of one.

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
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Tree and Leaf, Smith of Wooton Major, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth (1975)

This is a paperback edition of these writings by Tolkien.

Publisher: Unwin Books
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Il Cacciatore Di Draghi (2005)

This is the Italian translation of “Farmer Giles of Ham.”

Publisher: Bompiani Milan Publishing
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