Poems and Stories (by JRR Tolkien)

Poems and Stories is a compilation of some of the lesser-known writings of J. R. R. Tolkien released in 1980 by George Allen & Unwin (UK) and in 1994 by Houghton Mifflin (North America).

Contents

• The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, a play in alliterative verse on the historical Battle of Maldon.
• "Farmer Giles of Ham", a novella about an English farmer who encounters a dragon.
• "Smith of Wootton Major", another novella, set partly in Faerie and partly in the area near Oxford.
• "Leaf by Niggle", a highly allegorical short story often (including here) published in tandem with the essay "On Fairy-Stories" as Tree and Leaf.
• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, a collection of poems claiming to be "of hobbit origin" (and the only item in the compilation that is directly related to Middle-earth and The Lord of the Rings).

See also

• Tales from the Perilous Realm (2008), containing the same material as Poems and Stories with the addition of Tolkien's early children's story Roverandom but without Beorhtnoth, with new illustrations by Alan Lee
• The Tolkien Reader (1966), a similar collection, containing the same material as Poems and Stories except without Smith, and including an introductory essay by Peter S. Beagle

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