I know I am very late in trying to procure this book, but I have been looking for it everywhere with no luck. Would anyone have an idea where I could find the Deluxe Edition of this book--without having to sell one of my children?
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Thank you for the warm welcome, Bear! I look forward to learning and chatting about things Tolkienian and otherwise. The particular Tales From The Perilous Realm I am looking for though is the one that has the slip case. I have all the other books in this series but that one. I have been looking for it but to no avail. Anyway thank you again for the warm welcome--I am sure we will correspond in the near future!
Tales From The Perilous Realm has The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other shorter works by Tolkien in a nice slip case edition. That I hopefully have successfully attached here.
You posted;"I don't even know this book. Could someone enlighten me?"
It is Tolkien's four novellas (Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major, and Roverandom) and one book of poems (The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) all gathered together under the title "Tales From The Perilous Realm"
Hello Alister, I am Arwen Legolas, aka Lady Arwen. I will put my feelers out and see if I can find what you are looking for. What is your upper limit $$$wise?
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If I may jump in - although it's been two and a half years since the original post, I've had this book for a long time and here are some details:
- first of all, it can be bought from the Tolkien Official Bookshop: http://www.tolkien.co.uk/index.html (here is the exact link: http://www.tolkien.co.uk/product/9780007286188/Tales+from+the+Perilous+Realm)
- secondly, what does it contain? > Introduction by Tom Shippey > Roverandom > Farmer Giles of Ham > The Adventures of Tom Bombadil > Smith of Wootton Major > Leaf by Niggle > Appendix: On Fairy-stories > Afterword by Alan Lee
The only exclusive text is Shippey's 20-page introduction (I am not counting Lee's 2-page afterword), while the rest of the stories are available in other formats. Obviously you have a few illustrations here and there which embellish the book, but eventually they do not amount to much.
If you are a collector then you might consider spending the 75 GBP on this edition, but if you care about the tales, there are much better choices.
Farmer Giles of Ham - https://www.amazon.com/Farmer-Giles-Ham-Adventures-Worminghall/dp/0618009361/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495776384&sr=8-1&keywords=farmer+giles+of+ham
Smith of Wootton Major - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Smith-Wootton-Major-J-Tolkien/dp/0007202474/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1306416007&sr=8-2
On Fairy-stories - https://www.amazon.com/Tolkien-Fairy-Stories-Verlyn-Flieger/dp/0007582919/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1495776527&sr=8-8&keywords=verlyn+flieger
The above books have much more than just the text, they contain very insightful commentaries, analyses and earlier versions of the text, some even in facsimile. I hope to be able to present each of them in separate threads sometime soon.
To conclude, if you still want to go for this Deluxe edition (it looks nice, don't get me wrong, but I just think HarperCollins could have done more with it in the price), here's another image to get you going:
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I just read this for the first time a few weeks ago. Lovely stories. I feel like Farmer Giles captures some of the same Hobbit spirit that Tolkien admires - ordinary people rising to meet extraordinary circumstances.
Star, seeing your comment I felt the urge to re-read The Adventures of Tom Bombadil myself, which I have not done in years. I was surprised to see, upon a more careful look at this collection, that the poems are indeed very neat and show Tolkien's firm grip on rhyme and rhythm.
But as I was saying in my above post, most other stories from the Perilous Realm volume had already been published in separate, critical editions (with commentaries and bibliographical info), and I had often felt the need for such a treatment in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Now I was pleasantly surprised to see that I had access to such information in my Reader's Guide by Christina Scull and Wayne Hammond (J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (Two Volume Box Set)), which I've had for many years.
Here is a preview of what you could find in it concerning these poems (the book has entries for each of the 16 + one for the entire collection) - on p. 580 is the article for 'The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon', which starts off on the previous page (not shown), and on p. 581 the entire article for 'The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late' (click on the image for a larger version).
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My favourite poem in the collection is 'The Hoard', although 'The Sea-Bell' comes close behind. Star, which poem in the collection do you like most?
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