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Product code: 00017
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Publish year: 2009
Genre: Fiction literature
Age categories: Adult, Children
Tales from the Perilous Realm John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
This is a definitive collection of J. R. R. Tolkien’s famous shorter works. The five tales are written with the same skill, quality and hallmarks that made Tolkien’s Hobbit a beloved classic. They create such a wonderful world that leaving it is next to impossible. Roverandom is about a toy dog who becomes enchanted by a sand sorcerer and travelling to the Moon and into the deep sea encounters strange and fabulous creatures; Farmer Giles of Ham is fat and unheroic, but — having unwittingly managed to scare off a short-sighted giant — is called upon to do battle when the dragon Chrysophylax comes to town; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil tells about Tom’s many fantastic adventures with hobbits, princesses, dwarves and trolls; Smith of Wootton Major is lucky enough to swallow a magic star which becomes his pass to the Land of Faery; Leaf by Niggle recounts strange adventures of a painter Niggle who sets out to paint the perfect tree. These works are supplemented with the essay On Fairy-stories, which offers theoretical principles of Tolkien’s creative work, with the throughout illustrations and afterword by Alan Lee, and with the introduction by the Tolkien scholar and writer Tom Shippey. The collection may be considered an outstanding event for all admirers of true art.