Tales from the Perilous Realm: "Farmer Giles of Ham", "Smith of Wootton Major", "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", "Leaf by Niggle" (BBC Radio Collection)
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (656 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0563528087 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 574 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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A radio dramatization of four Tolkien stories - "Farmer Giles of Ham", "Smith of Wootton Major", "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", and "Leaf by Niggle". The cast is headed by Michael Hordern, Brian Blessed and Nigel Planer.
Farmer Giles of Ham: 'A fabulous tale of the days when giants and dragons walked the kingdom' Sunday Times Leaf by Niggle: 'A haunting and successful demonstration of the qualities of faerie' New York Times The Adventures of Tom Bombadil: 'Something close to genius' The Listener Smith of Wootton Major: 'Whoever reads it at eight will no doubt still be going back to it at eighty' New Statesman
His books have been translated into over 30 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide. J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays.
Tolkien Beyond Middle earth John D. Cofield In Tales From the Perilous Realm we have five short stories or novellas by J.R.R. Tolkien, plus his very famous lecture "On Fairy Stories". Only one of the selections has a direct connection with Middle earth: the poems which make up "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil". The other four are "Leaf By Niggle", a short tale with deeply moving theological connotations which originally accompanied the Fairy St. Mariah said Great addition to any Tolkien fans library. This has a lot of the lesser known works by Tolkien, such as, Farmer Giles of Ham, Smith of Wootton Major, Leaf by Niggle, Roverandom and Adventures of Tom Bombadil. These stories are much shorter than Tolkiens more celebrated classics and definitely worth reading. Roverandom is about a dog who gets involved in the lives of wizards and is never the same again. Leaf by Niggle is about an artist who in. Fantasy and Reality When J R R Tolkien began his legendarium of Middle-earth, he set out to create a mythology, a secondary reality, which, if successful, would be as real in its own way as the physical world is to us. He was guided by an inner sense that myth is a lie (as he said to C. S. Lewis), even if it is not always historical fact. There is so much of reality, of the human experience of life and of the universe t