Smith of Wootton Major

This tale is magical and enchanting but for me it seemed incomplete. Well, a little unresolved. A young boy gets to enter the wonderful world of Fay; he is chosen especially for it, but when he gets there he doesn’t do a great deal. I mean, talk about a wasted opportunity! I would have done so much......more

Reread via Audible on a car ride today. Amazing! And Derek Jacobi could read the back of a soup can and leave me enthralled. ‐---------------------------------- I want to have kids just so I can read them stories like this. I wanted to eat the Twenty-Fourth Year Cake; I wanted to hear Smith Smithson......more

"Smith Of Wootton Major" is the last of Tolkien’s literary work, published during his lifetime (1967). It emerged by mere chance, when he was asked to write the foreword for George MacDonald's The Golden Key reissue. Working on that chore, he became aware that within those lines, a new story was dev......more

I love the art in this one. The story itself is pretty good, too, as flavourful and immersive and well-written as we've come to expect from Tolkien, but the plot is not one of his best: it leans more towards the Silmarillion side of things, being more about just a retelling of things happening than t......more