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Thumbs up Came in quick, excellent condition. Love it.

Rare Tolkien shorts A 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.

Missing Important Title (Essay) Error in Table of Contents. On page 33, "On Fairy Stories" is not listed in the Table of Contents but rather under the title "Tree and Leaf" that doesn't begin until page 100. If you are looking for the Tolkien's essay "On Fairy Stories" it is not listed in the Table of Contents as such but does begin on page 33. Table of Contents shows "Tree and Leaf" but that doesn't begin until page 100.

mixed content, but with an absolute gem included This 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.

Tolkien's Shire of Imagination Tolkien'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