The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
di J.R.R. Tolkien.
Unwin Paperbacks, Londra
1° ed. 1990, 1° rist. 1991
Illustrato da Roger Garland
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Note
Include un errore non presente nell’ottima bibliografia
redatta da Wayne Hammond. A
pagina 11, infatti, è riportato ‘dock-step’ anziché ‘door-step’ nel poema The
Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
Quarta di copertina
‘something close to genius’
Anthony
Thwaite, The Listener
This
delightful volume of songs, rhymes and poems from The Red Book has many tales
to tell.
The
Adventures of Tom Bombadil tell us of Tom’s encounters with Goldberry, the
River-woman’s beautiful daughter, with Old Man Willow, who tries to trap Tom
inside his trunk, with the Badger-folk, and with the ghostly Barrow-wight who
dwells in the ancient mound on the hill-top. In the other berses we meet a
princess lovely as an elven-song, the Man in the Moon, Trolls, Dwarves and
legendary beasts.
