- English Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy tales
In this fiftieth anniversary edition of the Tolkien classic, Farmer Giles, his mare, and his talking dog go into the valley of the Thames to fight the dragon Chrysophylax. Includes the author's previously unpublished notes for a sequel.
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Classical in form, warm, resolved and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
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- Author
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- First published
- 1949
- Pages
- 90
- Publisher
- Harper Collins Publishers Stock Account, Unwin Hyman, Houghton Mifflin Co.
- Editions
- 57
- Language
- und, cat, English, German
- ISBN
- 9788431649784
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the
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