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J. Tolkien: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

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J. Tolkien The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
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The five tales are written with the same skill, quality and charm that made The Hobbit a classic. Largely overlooked because of their short lengths, they are finally together in a volume which reaffirms Tolkien's place as a master storyteller for readers young and old. Roverandom is a toy dog who, enchanted by a sand sorcerer, gets to explore the world and encounter strange and fabulous creatures. Farmer Giles of Ham is fat and unheroic, but - having unwittingly managed to scare off a short-sighted giant - is called upon to do battle when a dragon comes to town; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil tells in verse of Tom's many adventures with hobbits, princesses, dwarves and trolls; Leaf by Niggle recounts the strange adventures of the painter Niggle who sets out to paint the perfect tree; Smith of Wootton Major journeys to the Land of Faery thanks to the magical ingredients of the Great Cake of the Feast of Good Children. This new collection is fully illustrated throughout by Oscar-winning artist, Alan Lee, who provides a wealth of pencil drawings to bring the stories to life as he did so memorably for The Hobbit and The Children of Húrin. Alan also provides an Afterword, in which he opens the door into illustrating Tolkien's world. Taken together, this rich collection of new and unknown work from the author of The Children of Húrin will provide the reader with a fascinating journey into lands as wild and strange as Middle-earth.

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LITTLE PRINCESS MEE

Lovely was she
As in elven-song is told:
She had pearls in hair
All threaded fair;
Of gossamer shot with gold
Was her kerchief made,
And a silver braid
Of stars about her throat.
Of moth-web light
All moonlit-white
She wore a woven coat,
And round her kirtle
Was bound a girdle
Sewn with diamond dew.

She walked by day
Under mantle grey
And hood of clouded blue;
But she went by night
All glittering bright
Under the starlit sky,
And her slippers frail
Of fishes' mail
Flashed as she went by
To her dancing-pool,
And on mirror cool
Of windless water played.
As a mist of light
In whirling flight
A glint like glass she made
Wherever her feet
Of silver fleet
Flicked the dancing-floor.

She looked on high
To the roofless sky,
And she looked to the shadowy shore;
Then round she went,
And her eyes she bent
And saw beneath her go
A Princess Shee
As fair as Mee:
They were dancing toe to toe!

Shee was as light
As Mee, and as bright;
But Shee was, strange to tell,
Hanging down
With starry crown
Into a bottomless well!
Her gleaming eyes
In great surprise
Looked up to the eyes of Mee:
A marvellous thing,
Head-down to swing
Above a starry sea!

Only their feet
Could ever meet;
For where the ways might lie
To find a land
Where they do not stand
But hang down in the sky
No one could tell
Nor learn in spell
In all the elven-lore.

So still on her own
An elf alone
Dancing as before
With pearls in hair
And kirtle fair
And slippers frail
Of fishes' mail went Mee:
Of fishes' mail
And slippers frail
And kirtle fair
With pearls in hair went Shee!

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THE MAN IN THE MOON STAYED UP TOO LATE

There is an inn, a merry old inn
beneath an old grey hill,
And there they brew a beer so brown
That the Man in the Moon himself came down
one night to drink his fill.

The ostler has a tipsy cat
that plays a five-stringed fiddle;
And up and down he runs his bow,
Now squeaking high, now purring low,
now sawing in the middle.

The landlord keeps a little dog
that is mighty fond of jokes;
When there's good cheer among the guests,
He cocks an ear at all the jests
and laughs unlit he choices.

They also keep a horned cow
as proud as any queen;
But music turns her head like ale,
And makes her wave her tufted tail
and dance upon the green.

And O! the row of silver dishes
and the store of silver spoons!
For Sunday there's a special pair,
And these they polish up with care
on Saturday afternoons.

The Man in the Moon was drinking deep,
and the cat began to wail;
А dish and a spoon on the table danced,
Тhe cow in the garden madly pranced,
and the little dog chased his tail.

The Man in the Moon took another mug,
and then rolled beneath his chair;
And there he dozed and dreamed of ale,
Till in the sky the stars were pale,
and dawn was in the air.

The ostler said to his tipsy cat:
'The white horses of the Moon,
They neigh and champ their silver bits;
"But their master's been and drowned his wits,
and the Sun'll be rising soon!'

So the cat on his fiddle played hey-diddle-diddle,
a jig that would wake the dead:
He squeaked and sawed and quickened the tune,
While the landlord shook the Man in the Moon:
'It's after three!' he said.

They rolled the Man slowly up the hill
and bundled him into the Moon,
While his horses galloped up in rear,
And the cow came capering like a deer,
and a dish ran up with a spoon.

Now quicker the fiddle went deedle-dum-diddle;
the dog began to roar,
The cow and the horses stood on their heads;
The guests all bounded from their beds
and danced upon the floor.

With a ping and a pong the fiddle-strings broke!
the cow jumped over the Moon,
And the little dog laughed to see such fun,
And the Saturday dish went off at a run
with the silver Sunday spoon.

The round Moon rolled behind the hill,
as the Sun raised up her head.
She hardly believed her fiery eyes;
For though it was day, to her surprise
they all went back to bed!

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THE MAN IN THE MOON CAME DOWN TOO SOON

The Man in the Moon had silver shoon,
      and his beard was of silver thread;
With opals crowned and pearls all bound
      about his girdlestead,
In his mantle grey he walked one day
      across a shining floor,
And with crystal key in secrecy
      he opened an ivory door.

On a filigree stair of glimmering hair
      then lightly down he went,
And merry was he at last to be free
      on a mad adventure bent.
In diamonds white he had lost delight;
      he was tired of his minaret
Of tall moonstone that towered alone
      on a lunar mountain set.

He would dare any peril for ruby and beryl
      to broider his pale attire,
For new diadems of lustrous gems,
      emerald and sapphire.
So was lonely too with nothing to do
      but stare at the world of gold
And heark to the hum that would distantly come
      as gaily round it rolled.

At plenilune in his argent moon
      in his heart he longed for Fire:
Not the limpid lights of wan selenites;
      for red was his desire,
For crimson and rose and ember-glows,
      for flame with burning tongue,
For the scarlet skies in a swift sunrise
      when a stormy day is young.

He'd have seas of blues, and the living hues
      of forest green and fen;
And he yearned for the mirth of the populous earth
      and the sanguine blood of men.
He coveted song, and laughter long,
      and viands hot, and wine,
Eating pearly cakes of light snowflakes
and drinking thin moonshine.

He twinkled his feet, as he thought of the meat,
      of pepper, and punch galore;
And he tripped unaware on his slanting stair,
      and like a meteor,
A star in flight, ere Yule one night
      flickering down he fell
From his laddery path to a foaming bath
      in the windy Bay of Bel.

He began to think, lest he melt and sink,
      what in the moon to do,
When a fisherman's boat found him far afloat
      to the amazement of the crew,
Caught in their net all shimmering wet
      in a phosphorescent sheen
Of bluey whites and opal lights
      and delicate liquid green.

Against his wish with the morning fish
      they packed him back to land:
'You had best get a bed in an inn', they said;
      'the town is near at hand'.
Only the knell of one slow bell
      high in the Seaward Tower
Announced the news of his moonsick cruise
      at that unseemly hour.

Not a hearth was laid, not a breakfast made,
      and dawn was cold and damp.
There were ashes for fire, and for grass the mire,
      for the sun a smoking lamp
In a dim back-street. Not a man did he meet,
      no voice was raised in song;
There were snores instead, for all folk were abed
      and still would slumber long.

He knocked as he passed on doors locked fast,
      and called and cried in vain,
Till he came to an inn that had light within,
      and tapped at a window-pane.
A drowsy cook gave a surly look,
      and 'What do you want?' said he.
'I want fire and gold and songs of old
      and red wine flowing free!'

'You won't get them here', said the cook with a leer,
      'but you may come inside.
Silver I lack and silk to my back—
      maybe I'll let you bide'.
A silver gift the latch to lift,
      a pearl to pass the door;
For a seat by the cook in the ingle-nook
      it cost him twenty more.

For hunger or drouth naught passed his mouth
      till he gave both crown and cloak;
And all that he got, in an earthen pot
      broken and black with smoke,
Was porridge cold and two days old
      to eat with a wooden spoon.
For puddings of Yule with plums, poor fool,
      he arrived so much too soon:
An unwary guest on a lunatic quest
      from the Mountains of the Moon.

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