The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Poems from the Red Book ( original English title: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book) is a 1962 published collection of poems JRR Tolkien. The book includes 16 poems, of which, however, only deal directly with two Tom Bombadil, a character who was known by her encounter with Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings. The remaining poems are a selection of animal verses and fabulous poetry. Two of the poems also appear in the Lord of the Rings. The poems are a part of Tolkien's fantasy world and are considered canonically under Tolkienisten.

Background

The volume contains The Sea - Bell, subtitled Frodo Dreme, which was praised by WH Auden as Tolkien's best poem ever. It is a metrically and rhythmically complex piece, which tells the journey to a distant island across the sea. Inspired by the poetry of medieval dream visions of this poem is very melancholic with an end that tells the story of alienation and disillusionment.

The book was originally illustrated by Pauline Baynes and later by Roger Garland. Like the first edition of the band The Fellowship of The Lord of the Rings it presents itself to the reader as his own translation of the Red Book of Westmarch and contains background information about the fictional world of Middle-earth, which are not found elsewhere: for example, the name of the tower at Dol Amroth and the names of the seven rivers of Gondor. In addition, it provides a fictitious " background " about the included poems by outputs it as hobbit folklore and literature and calls her " writer" ( as some allegedly originate from Samwise Gamgee ).

The book is also noteworthy, as it the letter " K " instead of "C " is used to express the sound / k / in Tolkien's artificial language Sindarin, a spelling which changed repeatedly Tolkien in his writings.

Content

Expenditure

There are different editions of this book of poems. The first publication was in 1962 at Allen & Unwin, a second edition was published in 1963 by Houghton Mifflin. The German translation by Ebba - Margareta von Freymann, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Poems from the Red Book, published in 1984 in the Klett- Cotta Verlag, ISBN 3-608-95009-5.