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The Tolkien Reader Mass Market Paperback – November 12, 1986
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An absorbing collection of stories, poems, and commentaries by the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Renowned around the world as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien was also a distinguished academic and professor whose writings and lectures expand beyond the scope of his beloved Middle-earth. From short stories of fantastical adventures to essays on imagination and the narrative form, The Tolkien Reader gathers some of these fascinating and hard-to-find works into one volume.
Tree and Leaf: Professor Tolkien’s now-famous essay “On Fairy-stories” and the short story “Leaf by Niggle” examine and illustrate the form and treatment of fantasy narratives.
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son: A short play inspired by The Battle of Malden, an Old English poem with no ending and no beginning that describes a historical tenth-century battle between the English and Viking invaders.
Farmer Giles of Ham: An imaginative history of the distant past that follows the unheroic Farmer Giles as he attempts to capture a somewhat untrustworthy dragon.
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil: A delightful collection of verse in praise of Tom Bombadil, staunch friend of the hobbits in The Lord of the Rings.
- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDel Rey
- Publication dateNovember 12, 1986
- Dimensions4.16 x 0.67 x 6.84 inches
- ISBN-100345345061
- ISBN-13978-0345345066
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FARMER GILES OF HAM. An imaginative history of the distant and marvelous past that introduces the rather unheroic Farmer Giles, whose efforts to capture a somewhat untrustworthy dragon will delight readers everywhere.
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL. A collection of verse in praise of Tom Bombadil, that staunch friend of the Hobbits in THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
ON FAIRY-STORIES. Professor Tolkien's now-famous essy on the form of the fairy story and the treatment of fantasy.
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FARMER GILES OF HAM. An imaginative history of the distant and marvelous past that introduces the rather unheroic Farmer Giles, whose efforts to capture a somewhat untrustworthy dragon will delight readers everywhere.
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL. A collection of verse in praise of Tom Bombadil, that staunch friend of the Hobbits in THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
ON FAIRY-STORIES. Professor Tolkien's now-famous essy on the form of the fairy story and the treatment of fantasy.
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Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
Far to the north there are the Iron Hills, the Gray Mountains and the Ice Bay of Forochel; beyond that lies only the great Northern Waste. Farthest to the south is the Haradwaith, land of a dark and fierce people; on the west is the Sea, and far over the Sea are the immortal lands of Westernesse, out of which the Eldar peoples came, and to which they will all return in time. To the east is Mordor, and that was always an evil and desolate country. These are the boundaries of Middle-earth, and this is the world that J. R. R. Tolkein has explored and chronicled in The Lord of the Rings. I do not say created, for it was always there.
The Lord of the Rings and its prologue, The Hobbit, belong, in my experience, to a small group of books and poems and songs that I have truly shared with other people. The strangest strangers turn out to know it, and we talk about Gandalf and mad Gollum and the bridge of Khazad-dûm while the party or the classroom or the train rattles along unheard. Old friends rediscover it, as I do—to browse through any book of the Ring trilogy is to get hooked once more into the whole legend—and we talk of it at once as though we had just read it for the first time, and as though we were remembering something that had happened to us together long ago. Something of ourselves has gone into reading it, and so it belongs to us.
The country of the book, Middle-earth, is a land much like our own, as mythical, but no more so. Its sunlight is remembered from the long summers of childhood, and its nightmares are equally those of children: overwhelming visions of great, cold shapes that block out the sunlight forever. But the forces that form the lives of the dwellers of Middle-earth are the same that make our lives—history, chance and desire. It is a world bubbling with possibility, subject to natural law, and never more than a skin away from the howling primal chaos that waits outside every world; it is no Oz, no Great Good Place, but a world inhabited by people and things, smells and seasons, like our own.
The Hobbit is our introduction both to Middle-earth and to the tale of the One Ring. Hobbits are a small, burrow-dwelling people, a little shorter than Dwarves: furry-footed, sociable growers and gardeners, fond of fireworks, songs and tobacco, inclined toward stoutness and the drawing up of geneologies. In this book, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins accompanies thirteen Dwarves and a wizard named Gandalf to aid in the recovery of a treasure stolen by a dragon centuries before. During the adventure Bilbo finds a magic ring and brings it home as a souvenir. Its gift, as far as he can tell, is to make the wearer invisible, which is useful if you are trying to avoid aunts and dragons, and Bilbo uses it for both purposes a time or two. But he makes little other use of it in the sixty years he keeps it; he carries it in his pocket on a fine chain.
The Lord of the Rings begins with Gandalf’s discovery that Bilbo’s ring is in truth the One Ring of the rhyme. It was made by the Dark Lord—Sauron of Mordor, ageless and utterly evil—and the lesser rings distributed among Elves, Dwarves and Men are meant in time to lure the three peoples under the domination of the One Ring, the master of all. But Sauron has lost the ring, and his search for it is growing steadily more fierce and frantic: possessing the Ring, he would be finally invincible, but without it all his power may yet be unmade. The Ring must be destroyed—not only to keep it from Sauron’s grasp, but because of all the rings, the One Ring’s nature is to turn good into evil—and it is Bilbo’s nephew, Frodo Baggins, who undertakes to journey with it to the volcano where it was forged, even though the mountain lies in Mordor, under the eye of the Dark Lord.
The Lord of the Rings is the tale of Frodo’s journey through a long nightmare of greed and terrible energy, of his education in both fear and true beauty, and of his final loss of the world he seeks to save. In a sense, his growing knowledge has eaten up the joy and the innocent strength that made him, of all the wise and magic people he encounters, the only one fit to bear the Ring. As he tells Sam Gamgee, the only friend who followed him all the long way to the fire, “It must often be so . . . when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.” There are others in Middle-earth who would have willingly paid that price, but certainly none to whom it would have meant as much.
That is the plot; but the true delight of the book comes from the richness of the epic, of which The Lord of the Rings is only a few stanzas. The structure of Tolkein’s world is as dizzyingly complex and as natural as a snowflake or a spiderweb: the kingdoms of Men in Middle-earth alone have endured for three ages, and each of their histories, as Tolkein sets them forth in the fascinating Appendix, contains enough material for a ballad as long as The Lord of the Rings. And there are other, older peoples—notably the immortal Elves—whose memories go back to the Elder Days, long before good or evil moved in Middle-earth; there are the Dwarves and the Ents—the shepherds of the trees, “old as mountains”—and there is Tom Bombadil, who belongs to no race, no mission and no age.
Tolkein tells us something of each of these peoples—their songs, their languages, their legends, their customs and their relations with one another—but he is wise enough not to tell all that he knows of them and of their world. One can do that with literary creations, but not with any living thing. And Middle-earth lives, not only in The Lord of the Rings but around it and back and forth from it. I have read the complete work five or six times (not counting browsing, for which this essay is, in part, an excuse), and each time my pleasure in the texture of it deepens. It will bear the mind’s handling, and it is a book that acquires an individual patina in each mind that takes it up, like a much-caressed pocket stone or piece of wood. At times, always knowing that I didn’t write it, I feel that I did.
The Hobbit is a good introduction to the dwellers in Middle-earth, the more so as several of its main characters appear again in The Lord of the Rings. In addition to hobbits, Dwarves, Elves and Men, there is Gandalf the wizard: a wanderer, known by many names to many peoples, capable of appearing as a bent, frail old man, handy with fireworks, vain, fussy and somehow comical, or as a shining figure of terrifying power, fit to contest the will of Sauron himself. And there is Beorn, the skin-changer, who can take on the shape of a bear at will; a surly, rumbling man, but a good friend. Beorn is not seen after The Hobbit, but in a literary sense he is the forerunner of the more deeply realized Tom Bombadil. Both are wary creatures, misliking the great concerns of other peoples. Both are their own masters, under no enchantment but their own; but old Bombadil is song incarnate, and his power is greater than Beorn’s. He would be the last to be conquered if Sauron held the Ring.
But of all the characters in both books, surely the most memorable—and by his own miserable fate, the most important—is the creature called Sméagol, or Gollum, from the continuous gulping sound he makes in his throat. Gollum in ancestry is very close to the hobbits, and it is he who discovers the Ring in a river where it has been lost for thousands of years. Rather, he murders to get it, for no reason that he can say except that it is more beautiful than anything that has ever come into his life. His name for it, always, is “the Precious.” He flees up the river with it until the river flows under the mountains, and there he hides in darkness until Bilbo, lost in the mountains, stumbles on him and on the unguarded Ring, which he pockets. The Ring takes care of itself, as Gandalf realizes: it gravitates to power; it goes where it has to go. But Gollum cannot live without his Precious, and it is not long before he leaves the mountains to search for it. In his wanderings, he eventually picks up the trail of Frodo and Sam, and is captured by them and made to lead them into Mordor, where he has once been Sauron’s prisoner. From then on he is either along with them or in sight of them almost continuously until the end of their journey—and of his own equally terrible odyssey.
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- Publisher : Del Rey
- Publication date : November 12, 1986
- Edition : Reprint
- Language : English
- Print length : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0345345061
- ISBN-13 : 978-0345345066
- Item Weight : 4.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.16 x 0.67 x 6.84 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #69,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #579 in Historical Fantasy (Books)
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J.R.R. Tolkien was born on 3rd January 1892. After serving in the First World War, he became best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, selling 150 million copies in more than 40 languages worldwide. Awarded the CBE and an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Oxford University, he died in 1973 at the age of 81.
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Customers find this book to be a treasure trove of essays and excellent tales, with one review highlighting its lighthearted poetry. Moreover, the book features beautiful illustrations, and customers praise Tolkien's masterful writing style, with one noting that animals are as well-written as people. Additionally, customers appreciate the book's taste, with one comparing it to crisp produce new from the garden, and consider it worth the price.
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Customers find the book highly readable, describing it as a great treasure trove of essays, with one customer noting it provides a delicious immersion into the world of imagination.
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"...For a delicious immersion into the world of imagination, made visual, see the art of Arthur Rackham...." Read more
"...written in his old age, allow Tolkien to remind us again of the good sense and courage of the common man...." Read more
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Customers enjoy the tales in the book, with one review highlighting Tolkien's narrative style and another mentioning a fun dragon-and-knights fairy tale.
"...The love of story-telling, what Tolkien calls the "Cauldron of Story," is a gift...." Read more
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"...But there is an absolute gem of a story that is worth the price of the book. That is "Leaf by Niggle", in the Tree and Leaf section...." Read more
"...familiar with his best-known writings, you will find a terrific collection of stories that stand on their own and do him justifiably proud!" Read more
Customers appreciate the excellent illustrations in the book, with one customer noting the beautiful landscape that proves refreshing.
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- Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2012Format: Mass Market PaperbackVerified PurchaseTolkien's passion for the deep roots of the English language led him to weave a skein of story-telling that enthrall us. The book begins with his translation of an ancient fragment of an epic poem, "The Battle of Malden," about a real 10th battle between the English, led by Beorhtnoth of Essex, and Viking invaders. "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelms' Son" is followed by an essay on the nature of heroism. The words bang up against one another in painfully exquisite poetry: "Aye, a bump on the bone is bad for dreams, and it's cold waking" (Tolkien 1966:19), is due to Tolkien's fine craft as philologist and myth-maker. Another sample (1966:19):
"Thus ages pass, and men after men . . .
So the world passes;
day follows day, and the dust gathers,
his tomb crumbles, as time gnaws it,
and his kith and kindred out of ken dwindle.
So men flicker in the mirk and goes out.
The world withers and the wind rises;
the candles are quenched. Cold falls the night."
The love of story-telling, what Tolkien calls the "Cauldron of Story," is a gift. As a child, I soaked-up vivid renderings of unabridged Brother's Grimm, every juicy ounce of gruesomeness savored. "Without the stew and the bones - which children are now too often spared in mollified versions of Grimm - that vision [of distance and a great abyss of time] would have been lost. I do not think I was harmed by the horror in the fairytale setting, out of whatever dark beliefs and practices of the past it may have come. Such stories . . . open a door on Other Time, and if we pass through, though only for a moment, we stand outside our own time, outside Time itself, maybe" (56).
"I feel strongly the fascination of the desire to unravel the intricately knotted and ramified history of the branches on the Tree of Tales . . . It is now beyond all skill but that of the elves to unravel it" (Tolkien 1966:46-47). For a delicious immersion into the world of imagination, made visual, see the art of Arthur Rackham. To explore the "Perilous Realm" of the story, this small book is a pleasure; I highly recommend Tolkien's lyrical, academic essay "On Fairy Stories," in the section "Tree and Leaf." Even the introduction to this section delights. Following the essay, his classic fable "Leaf by Niggle" is interrelated "by the symbols of Tree and Leaf," both touch on Tolkien's creative concept of sub-creation (Tolkien 1966:31). Tolkien was a creator who believed in, as he put it, the "True Myth." I highly recommend the superb study, written Humphrey Carpenter J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, and The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Carpenter. I also suggest T. A. Shippey's excellent books: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century and The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology, among his extensive works on Tolkien.
J.R.R. Tolkien's "On Fairy Stories," explores his love of the genre, myth and folklore, sub-creation, imagination, art, and fantasy. He describes how Art is "the operative link between Imagination and the final result, Sub-creation" (68). For him, the imaginative world of the "fantastic," the art of creating believable images not of the primary world, "is virtue, not a vice. Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent (69). He declares that, "Fantasy, of course, starts out with an advantage: arresting strangeness. But that advantage has been turned against it, and has contributed to its disrepute. Many people dislike . . . any meddling with the Primary World, or such small glimpses of it as are familiar to them [pretentious rationalists, confined to their narrow view]. They, therefore, stupidly and even maliciously confound Fantasy with Dreaming, in which there is no Art; and with mental disorders, in which there is not even control: with delusion and hallucination" (69).
J.R.R. Tolkien referred to himself as a Large Hobbit, he also had deep Catholic faith; his mother's life was shortened by the cruel privations after her family rejected her conversion. She was inspired by Cardinal John Henry Newman; after she died, young Tolkien and his brother found refuge at Newman's Birmingham Oratory. Early on, Tolkien found richness in mythologies and the world of faerie, and in his faith. The following words of encouragement to artists, writers, musicians, and architects are written as if the author had read Tolkien's treatises on the creative impulse. "Art must make perceptible . . . the world of the spirit, of the invisible . . . Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen. It does so without emptying the message itself of its transcendent value and aura of mystery." Also, "Every genuine artistic intuition goes beyond what the senses perceive and, reaching beneath reality's surface, strives to interpret its hidden mystery. The intuition itself springs from the depths of the human soul, where the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things . . . what they manage to express in their . . . creating is no more than a glimmer of the splendor which flared for a moment before the eyes of their spirit." And, "the intimate reality of things is always `beyond' the powers of human perception." From the "Letter to Artists" (JPII:1999), whose essence explores Tolkien's description of sub-creation.
Those with artistic ability, and a love of writing and reading, may especially appreciate Tolkien's modest protagonist in "Leaf by Niggle." The story was born of a piece, when Tolkien woke one morning with it already complete in his mind. In the introduction to the book's section "Tree and Leaf," he describes how the story was inspired by the beauty of a "great-limbed poplar tree that I could see even lying in bed. It was suddenly lopped and mutilated by its owner, I do not know why. It is cut down now, a barbarous punishment for any crimes it may have been accused of, such as being large and alive. I do not think it had any friends, or any mourners, except for myself and a pair of owls" (31-32).
As to the story: in another realm, Niggle's old neighbor, Parish, is guided by a man towards some distant mountains. Along the way, Parish is astonished to see a gorgeous, somewhat familiar looking tree flourishing in divine light . . .
"Did you think all this, Niggle? I never knew you were so clever. Why didn't you tell me?"
"He tried to tell you long ago," said the man; "but you would not look. He only got canvas and paint in those days, and you wanted to mend your roof with them [Niggle's paintings]. This is what you and your wife used to call Niggle's Nonsense, or That Daubing."
"But it did not look like this then, not real," said Parish.
"No, it was only a glimpse then," said the man; "but you might have caught the glimpse, if you had ever thought it worth while to try."
Meanwhile, what is left of Niggle's portrait of his tree crumbles, "but one beautiful leaf remained intact. Atkins had it framed. Later he left it to the town museum, and for a long while 'Leaf: by Niggle' hung there in a recess, and was noticed by a few eyes. But eventually the Museum was burnt down, and the leaf, and Niggle, were entirely forgotten in his old country" (119-120). But, in his new country, Niggle's beautiful landscape proves refreshing and restorative for many soul.
You also won't want to miss the section with "Verses from the Red Book," with the original, delightful illustrations by Pauline Baynes, and alliterative treats such as "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late." The little dog laughed . . .
- Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2025Format: Mass Market PaperbackVerified PurchaseAs advertised. Great book!
- Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2014Format: Mass Market PaperbackVerified PurchaseIt is NOT -- as the publishers themselves note at the beginning -- a "Reader" in the sense that it gives readers selections from his greatest works: "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" books, with all of their many offshoots. Those works do not even appear here! This merely collects some of the shorter, self-contained works that Tolkien produced. "Farmer Giles" is a cool little dragon-and-knights fairy tale; and "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son" is an excellent "fairy story", in Tolkien's own deeper, mystical sense of that oft-used term. Had this collection only contained these two stories, plus the story "Leaf By Niggle", this book would be well worth obtaining. However, this reader ALSO includes one nonfiction essay, "Tree and Leaf" (an essay on "fairy tales" in Tolkien's sense), which is somewhat interesting but long-winded (in my little opinion), and which actually contains, as its "part B", so to speak, that excellent "Leaf By Niggle" story of fiction, which is the essay's companion piece, apparently. Lastly, this Reader contains "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other verses from The Red Book" (poetry), which I, as a fan but of more spiritual and intellectual Christian poetry, do not care much for, since THESE verses are poems which belong in the Lord of the Rings series, really. (Some of them are even found there, apparently.)
Personally, I find Tolkien's longer prose (in "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings" cycles) dry and long-winded -- I much prefer C.S. Lewis's lively, concise style! -- and so these shorter works of Tolkien's appeal greatly to me; I can start them and actually finish them! And with relish and enjoyment!
- Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2011Format: Mass Market PaperbackVerified Purchase"Smith of Wootten Major" and "Farmer Giles of Ham" -- two novellas by "Lord of the Rings" creator, J.R.R. Tolkien -- taste crisp as produce new from the garden, even in this aging paperback edition. Giles, written in the 1930s and Smith, written in his old age, allow Tolkien to remind us again of the good sense and courage of the common man. Giles ripples with sophisticated humor as the simple villager inadvertently takes on first, a giant thanks to his alarmist dog, and then a dragon, helped by his patient and wise mare. Animals are as well-written as people in his "faery" world, where negotiating with a dragon (twice!) sounds like a court-house-steps deal between the S.E.C. and a Wall Street trader, only Giles' deals actually do some good in the end. Smith reminds us, in a tender and graceful way, that attending to the day and what it brings is a a kind of glory unseen, worth our every effort, even if we live and die in quiet obscurity. No one of us is without value. No matter how humble our good work, our strenuous best counts, it has a legacy that we all live within and share. Thank you again, Professor Tolkien. You are a true friend.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2015Format: Library BindingVerified PurchaseThis is a mixed bag collection of odd Tolkien works, some fiction, some not. But there is an absolute gem of a story that is worth the price of the book. That is "Leaf by Niggle", in the Tree and Leaf section. There is real spiritual content to Tolkien below the surface (including Lord of the Rings--the book, but not the movies). This is a great example. He is a masterful writer.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2014Format: Mass Market PaperbackVerified PurchaseIf you are a Tolkien fan, and you don't have this book, you are missing out on a part of the great man's vision! And for people who have not become familiar with his best-known writings, you will find a terrific collection of stories that stand on their own and do him justifiably proud!
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- David CroucherReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Rare Tolkien shorts
Format: Mass Market PaperbackVerified PurchaseA useful compendium of what are, today, hard to get Tolkien works, though all have been previously published. Put together, I suspect, by the US publisher, and with an introduction.
- Amazon CustomerReviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Thumbs up
Format: Mass Market PaperbackVerified PurchaseCame in quick, excellent condition. Love it.