Contents

• Smith of Wootton Major
  Smith of Wootton Major
  Smith of Wootton Major, first published in 1967, is a novella by J. R. R. Tolkien.-Background:The book began as an attempt to explain the meaning of Faery by means of a story about a cook and his cake. This was intended to be part of a preface by Tolkien to George MacDonald's famous fairy story...
  
  

• Farmer Giles of Ham
  Farmer Giles of Ham
  "Farmer Giles of Ham" is a Medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 and published in 1949. The story describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax, and how Giles manages to use these to rise from humble beginnings to rival the king of the land...
  
  

• Tree and Leaf
  Tree and Leaf
  Tree and Leaf is a small book published in 1964, containing two works by J. R. R. Tolkien:* a revised version of an essay called "On Fairy-Stories"...
  
  
  • Introductory Note
  • On Fairy-Stories
    On Fairy-Stories
    "On Fairy-Stories" is an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien which discusses the fairy-story as a literary form. It was initially written for presentation by Tolkien as the Andrew Lang lecture at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in 1939. It first appeared in print, with some enhancement, in 1947, in...
    
    
  • Leaf by Niggle
    Leaf by Niggle
    "Leaf by Niggle" is a short story written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1938–39 and first published in the Dublin Review in January 1945. It can be found, most notably, in Tolkien's book titled Tree and Leaf, and in other places...
    
    

• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
  The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
  The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is a collection of poetry written by J. R. R. Tolkien and published in 1962. The book contains 16 poems, only two of which deal with Tom Bombadil, a character who is most famous for his encounter with Frodo Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring...
  
  
  • Preface
  • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (poem)
  • Bombadil Goes Boating
  • Errantry
    Errantry
    Errantry is a three-page long poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, first published in 1933. It was included in Tolkien's short poetry collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ....
    
    
  • Princess Mee
  • The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
    The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
    The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late is the imagined original ditty that is recorded in 'our time' as the simplified nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle". The supposed original was invented by J. R. R. Tolkien...
    
    
  • The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
  • The Stone Troll
  • Perry-the-Winkle
  • The Mewlips
    The Mewlips
    The Mewlips is a hobbit poem, appearing in the work The Adventures of Tom Bombadil by J.R.R. Tolkien. It concerns the Mewlips, an imaginary race of evil creatures that feed on passers by, collecting their bones in a sack...
    
    
  • Oliphaunt
  • Fastitocalon
  • Cat
  • Shadow-bride
  • The Hoard
  • The Sea-Bell
    The Sea-Bell
    The Sea-Bell or Frodos Dreme is a poem by J.R.R. Tolkien included in his 1962 collection of verse The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.-Background:...
    
    
  • The Last Ship
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In the poem, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious warrior who is completely green, from his clothes and hair to his...
  
  
  • Preface (by Christopher Tolkien
    Christopher Tolkien
    Christopher Reuel Tolkien is the third and youngest son of the author J. R. R. Tolkien , and is best known as the editor of much of his father's posthumously published work. He drew the original maps for his father's The Lord of the Rings, which he signed C. J. R. T. The J...
    
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  • Introduction
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In the poem, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious warrior who is completely green, from his clothes and hair to his...
    
    (poem)
  • Pearl
    Pearl (poem)
    Pearl is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the "Pearl poet" or "Gawain poet", is generally assumed, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Cleanness or...
    
    
  • Sir Orfeo
    Sir Orfeo
    Sir Orfeo is an anonymous Middle English narrative poem, retelling the story of Orpheus as a king rescuing his wife from the fairy king.-History and Manuscripts:...
    
    
  • Glossary
  • Appendix on Verse-forms
  • Gawain's Leave-taking