Books by J.R.R. Tolkien
![Tales from the Perilous Realm [With Roverandom] (1998)](/jrr-tolkien/tales-from-the-perilous-realm-with-roverandom/cover)
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review 1: A fleshed-out version of the events that happen in a few chapters of The Silmarillion. Since it covers an unrelentingly bad time in Middle-Earth (no happy ending) it may not be for everyone. Tolkien descends from the loftier point of view of The Silmarillion into a more intimate ...
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review 1: SPOILER ALERT: Arthur dies at the end. The poem itself is lovely, with some really breathtaking language, which was clearly wrought with patience and and an eye for the aesthetic. Christopher Tolkien's extensive notes lend even more gravitas to the poem by demonstrating the amoun...
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review 1: En general me ha parecido un buen libro. Los dos primeros cuentos me parecen los más flojos, pero se compensa con los tres últimos, muy bien escritos y con un gran sentido del ritmo, además de tener historias entretenidas y con algunos momentos muy inspirados. De los cuentos más ...
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review 1: Of the five shorts in this collection, the only one I didn't like was "Smith of Wooton Major." Some of the "Adventures of Tom Bombadil" were tough reads, but they were so short that it didn't bring down the book as a whole.These shorts only tangentially add to the universe of Mi...
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review 1: A very interesting collection of stories by J. R. R. Tolkien. Some of the stories were clearly meant to be read aloud to children, but are highly enjoyable to child and adult alike. The verses collected under the name Adventures of Tom Bombadil are, most of them, haunting and sli...