Two hard-to-find classic fantasy short stories by the author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit gathered into one volume—now with beautiful new cover art.
The last of Tolkien's fiction to be published in his lifetime, Smith of Wootton Major is a haunting tale about a boy who unwittingly swallows a star and is granted the ability to wander freely between the mortal world and the land of Faery. But, as he grows into adulthood, his existence between the two worlds leaves him dreamy and disconnected from those he loves.
That story is paired here with Farmer Giles of Ham, an imaginative history of the distant past which introduces the rather unheroic Farmer Giles, whose efforts to capture a somewhat untrustworthy dragon prove most challenging.
