The Adventures of Tom Bombadil by J. R. R. Tolkien

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien [J.R.R. Tolkien]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014-09-12T04:00:00+00:00

(‘His leg armour was of hardened leather [cuir bouilli], his sword’s sheath of ivory, his helm was of bright latten [an alloy of copper, tin, and other metals]; his saddle was of ruel-bone [whale ivory], his bridle shone like the sun, or like moonlight.’) Others have suggested that Errantry, with its ‘pretty butterfly’, fairy-gold, elven-knights, and the like, is a response by Tolkien to his views on ‘the diminutive being, elf or fairy, … a literary business in which William Shakespeare and Michael Drayton played a part’. Drayton’s Nimphidia, Tolkien wrote, singling out ‘one of the worst [fairy-stories] ever written’, ‘is one ancestor of that long line of flower-fairies and fluttering sprites with antennae that I so disliked as a child, and which my children in their turn detested’ (On Fairy-Stories, first published 1947, quoted from The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (1983), p. 111).

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