Farmer Giles of Ham - The Adventures of Tom Bombadil - Tolkien
KORTE INHOUD
FARMER GILES OF HAM
Here is a new tale by the author of 'The Hobbit', a fairy story which was acclaimed by discerning critics as possessing an imaginative vitality as rare as genius. 'Farmer Giles', rather than a fairy story of any usual kind, is an imaginative story of the distant and marvellous past. Its scene is the valley of the Thames and this island of Britain, while it was 'still happily divided into many kingdoms,' in the days before King Arthur of the Seven Kingdoms.
Here is a new hero, unheroic, but fortunate and shrewd, Farmer Giles of Ham, and his mare, and his dog. Here also for dragon-fanciers, is another dragon, less terrible perhaps than Smaug, but no less wealthy or wily; Chrystophanix of imperial line.
Its imaginative atmosphere and magic are best captured when it is read aloud, when it will live with all the force of 'a tale that holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner.'
'fabulous tale of the days when giants and dragons walked the kingdom...full of scholar's wit' (Sunday...
Here is a new tale by the author of 'The Hobbit', a fairy story which was acclaimed by discerning critics as possessing an imaginative vitality as rare as genius. 'Farmer Giles', rather than a fairy story of any usual kind, is an imaginative story of the distant and marvellous past. Its scene is the valley of the Thames and this island of Britain, while it was 'still happily divided into many kingdoms,' in the days before King Arthur of the Seven Kingdoms.
Here is a new hero, unheroic, but fortunate and shrewd, Farmer Giles of Ham, and his mare, and his dog. Here also for dragon-fanciers, is another dragon, less terrible perhaps than Smaug, but no less wealthy or wily; Chrystophanix of imperial line.
Its imaginative atmosphere and magic are best captured when it is read aloud, when it will live with all the force of 'a tale that holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner.'
'fabulous tale of the days when giants and dragons walked the kingdom...full of scholar's wit' (Sunday...
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