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A treasure, my precious!
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Poems from the Hobbit
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This miniature book contains all the poems taken from The Hobbit. It is illustrated with thirty of Tolkien's own paintings and drawings.
57 pages, Hardcover
First published October 4,1999
This edition
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57 pages, Hardcover
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December 1, 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ISBN
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9780618009343
- ASIN
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0618009345
- Language
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English
About the author
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and alphabets.
Tolkien's most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal.
Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist who painted for pleasure and relaxation. He excelled at landscapes and often drew inspiration from his own stories. He illustrated many scenes from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sometimes drawing or painting as he was writing in order to visualize the imagined scene more clearly.
Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years, teaching Old and Middle English, as well as Old Norse and Gothic. His illuminating lectures on works such as the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, illustrate his deep knowledge of ancient languages and at the same time provide new insights into peoples and legends from a remote past.
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892 to English parents. He came to England aged three and was brought up in and around Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1915 and saw active service in France during the First World War before being invalided home. After the war he pursued an academic career teaching Old and Middle English. Alongside his professional work, he invented his own languages and began to create what he called a mythology for England; it was this ‘legendarium' that he would work on throughout his life. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth, he also wrote poetry, children's stories and fairy tales for adults. He died in 1973 and is buried in Oxford where he spent most of his adult life.
Tolkien's most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal.
Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist who painted for pleasure and relaxation. He excelled at landscapes and often drew inspiration from his own stories. He illustrated many scenes from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sometimes drawing or painting as he was writing in order to visualize the imagined scene more clearly.
Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years, teaching Old and Middle English, as well as Old Norse and Gothic. His illuminating lectures on works such as the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, illustrate his deep knowledge of ancient languages and at the same time provide new insights into peoples and legends from a remote past.
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892 to English parents. He came to England aged three and was brought up in and around Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1915 and saw active service in France during the First World War before being invalided home. After the war he pursued an academic career teaching Old and Middle English. Alongside his professional work, he invented his own languages and began to create what he called a mythology for England; it was this ‘legendarium' that he would work on throughout his life. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth, he also wrote poetry, children's stories and fairy tales for adults. He died in 1973 and is buried in Oxford where he spent most of his adult life.
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Tiny little book ... but wonderful
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Cute little book of poems from J.R.R.Tolkien’s The Hobbit. I enjoyed the illustrations more than the poems that most fans of Tolkien know.
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After some years looking for it I've finally managed to get a copy to myself. The book is exactly what I expected to be, all the poems and riddles from The Hobbit. Even better, since I didn't know it had some ilustrations made by Tolkien himself. I have to say that the size of the book surprised me, I knew it was going to be thin, but I didn't expect it to be small as well. Anyway, it was a nice surprise since I believe it's cutter this way.
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A book that fits in your pocket, maybe even in your wallet. It's that tiny, but it's a gem. I loved the artwork by Tolkien himself. The little poems/riddles were know to me because I've read The Hobbit of course. The one I liked the best is the last one, the ending, of which we all know is not the end at all - it's the beginning.
Roads go ever on and on,
Over rock and under tree
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea:
Over snow by winter sown,
Ans through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon,
Roads go ever on and on,
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.
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Would have given this five stars, but this book is TINY - 3" x 3.5" - and thus difficult to read the 6-font italic type and enjoy JRRT's own illustrations. Some of the miniscule illustrations are of scenes from The Hobbit and others are sort of random, but appropos to the poems. Still, it's nice to have all the poems (including the Riddles) in one place and in order.
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This was a hidden gem I found among my father’s books...
“Down the swift dark stream you go
Back to lands you once did know!”
These lines perfectly sum up what it felt like to read this delightful book. It isn’t much of a surprise. It is exactly how everyone imagines it, the collection of the riddles and the poems of The Hobbit . What makes it so special though, is that it features a couple of illustrations created by Tolkien himself.
It was probably the unexpected discovery that led my mind to wandering towards the past and, there I was, in middle-earth once again, and it indeed felt like going back to lands I once did know.
“Down the swift dark stream you go
Back to lands you once did know!”
These lines perfectly sum up what it felt like to read this delightful book. It isn’t much of a surprise. It is exactly how everyone imagines it, the collection of the riddles and the poems of The Hobbit . What makes it so special though, is that it features a couple of illustrations created by Tolkien himself.
It was probably the unexpected discovery that led my mind to wandering towards the past and, there I was, in middle-earth once again, and it indeed felt like going back to lands I once did know.
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