Name: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from The Red Book
ISBN: 9780261102101

J.R.R. Tolkien

Robert Garland

A volume of songs, rhymes and poems from The Red Book. They tell of Tom's encounters with Goldberry, with Old Man Willow, who tries to trap Tom inside his trunk, with the Badger-folk, and with the ghostly Barrow-wight, as well as with a princess, trolls, dwarves and legendary beasts.

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from The Red Book

And Other Verses from the Red Book

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

C. J. Daley 

This is the third in Tales from the Perilous Realm, but this one was a first time read for me. I admit that the ‘other verses’ kind of went over my head or I misunderstand, because about halfway through I was like “what in the world does this have to do with Tom Bombadil?” So I actually listened to this twice today. 

This is a collection of poems by Tolkien. It includes two about Bombadil, who readers will know from Frodo meeting him in The Fellowship of the Ring. As one of the strangest characters I personally think he ever created, it still does not surprise me that Peter Jackson skipped that part entirely. 

The collection includes three that are actually featured in The Lord of the Rings as well, and the book had a very cool ‘in-universe’ (esque) preface. It speaks of how some of the stories are written by Bilbo or Sam, and how one featured is actually a dream that Frodo had, although probably not actually written by him. 

During my first listen through, as I stated above, I was looking for the Tom Bombadil context and was super confused. On the second, I enjoyed it and appreciated it for what it was. Poetry is not really my thing, but some of these are considered to be very good works by Tolkien, so I’m glad to have experienced them. 

The 16 featured poems are:
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Bombadil Goes Boating
Errantry 
Princess Mee
The Man in the Moon Stayed Up too Late
The Man in the Moon Came Down too Soon
The Stone Troll
Perry-the-Winkle
The Mewlips
Oliphaunt
Fastitocalon
Cat
Shadow-Bride
The Hoard
The Sea-Bell (OR ‘Frodos Dreme’)
The Last Ship

Enjoyable, well down works written throughout his life. Personally a 4/5* for the king.

A collection of sixteen songs, rhymes, and poems follows Tom Bombadil as he encounters Goldberry, the River-woman's beautiful daughter, Old Man Willow, and the Badger folk.

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book

Jeni Enjaian

I don't have much to say about this short book. I think I may have been missing some of the book in the audiobook version I listened too. It was good and an interesting dramatized narration. However, since I knew the entire story (it's almost straight from Fellowship...at least the part I listened to) it wasn't my favorite.

Kerry McHugh West

Mattia Ilic

Eventyr på vers med kæmper og drager, store rigdomme, en snu bonde og en ikke alt for sympatisk konge.

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, and Other Verses from the Red Book

Chrystal Giordano

Verse about trolls. elves, the sea, knights, strange beasts and birds and a spirited fellow unusal Tom Bornbadil, who weds a river-nymph.

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from The Red Book

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