I found Farmer Giles of Ham/Smith of Wootton Major!!!

galadriel88 · 04-26-2002, 10:57 PM

Yay! I've been searching for this forever! And only 6 bucks at B&N, I got lucky...

***azalea*** · 04-27-2002, 09:18 AM

I've read them both and liked them. "Smith" is a little hard to understand at times (one of those where you have to re-read parts to try to get the underlying meaning), but Farmer Giles is GREAT. I LOVE that story!

galadriel88 · 04-28-2002, 09:14 PM

I've read the first couple of pages of "Farmer" since it's first, and it is kind of confusing. But then again, it was midnight, so....

Ñólendil · 04-30-2002, 06:31 PM

Never read Smith, how is it?

***azalea*** · 04-30-2002, 07:55 PM

It's a strange story, but it's so short it's really worth reading, esp. for Tolkein fans. I liked it.

Liviaine · 05-01-2002, 08:41 PM

I read Farmer Giles of Ham over spring break. I liked it.

Blackheart · 05-01-2002, 11:15 PM

Both are good stories.

I also HIGHLY recommend "Leaf by Niggle".

It's very interesting, when you consider who Niggle could be seen to represent.

arynetrek · 05-06-2002, 12:24 AM

"Smith" & "Farmer" are great! Didn't think "Smith" was confusing at all, read it in one sitting (and really should reread it soon, it's such a beautiful little tale).

Heard "Niggle" was well worth reading, should look it up next time i go bookstore-hopping...

breathe - relax - semester's over,

aryne *

Khadrane · 05-07-2002, 08:21 PM

Yeah, "Niggle" was good. Read it on the way home from my sister's B-Ball game. But I thought Tolkien disliked allegory. It seemed kinda like one to me.

Blackboar · 04-25-2003, 05:21 AM

I bought that book this morning, I've already rented it from the libary and read it, but I needed to add it to my Tolkien book collection (Now 25 books

)
I love the story, I fell in love with Garm.

(I got it for 4$, bought it in Las Vegas before I took the 20 hour flight back home.)

***Rían*** · 04-25-2003, 03:59 PM

Yes, Garm's funny! I have read both Smith and Farmer Giles and like them both. Smith is interesting and has a rather sad aura about it. Tolkien once said it wasn't a story for children or something like that in one of his letters - here it is, from letter 299 - "An old man's book, already weighted with the presage of 'bereavement'." Leaf by Niggle is also very interesting.

Gamigar · 06-30-2003, 01:39 AM

I was lucky enough to find a REALLY old one, like, from the sixties. It's cool, its got medievel style illistrations.

Shadowfax · 06-30-2003, 10:41 AM

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I was lucky enough to find a REALLY old one, like, from the sixties. It's cool, its got medievel style illistrations.

Is that the one illustrated by Pauline Baynes? I love her drawings. She also illustrated Bilbo's Last Song, which is really just a poem, but very good. I love that book too.

***Rían*** · 07-01-2003, 03:03 PM

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Originally posted by Shadowfax
Is that the one illustrated by Pauline Baynes? I love her drawings. She also illustrated Bilbo's Last Song, which is really just a poem, but very good. I love that book too.

I have BLS too, and really like it - really nice pics! Baynes illustrated C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, too. Tolkien really liked her.

Any other comments on Smith? It was really interesting to me, and I'd like to hear some Mooter's opinions on it.

04-26-2002, 10:57 PM	#1
galadriel88 Halfwitted Queen of Lothlorien Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Far off in a dream Posts: 1,166	I found Farmer Giles of Ham/Smith of Wootton Major!!! Yay! I've been searching for this forever! And only 6 bucks at B&N, I got lucky... __________________ The beuatiful mind/The beautiful heart/Doesn't deserve the pain/How can I stop the rain? -How Can I Stop the Rain? by Kessid, my new favorite band +Every good thing that comes into my life is only a reflection of the greatest gift of all; the offering of yourself, dear Son of God+ Always remember, you're uniqe, just like everybody else! "The one constant through all the years has been the Trombone. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. Its been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but the Trombone has marked the time. This field, this section, this band is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again. Oh, people will come . . . people will most definitely come."

04-28-2002, 09:14 PM	#3
galadriel88 Halfwitted Queen of Lothlorien Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Far off in a dream Posts: 1,166	I've read the first couple of pages of "Farmer" since it's first, and it is kind of confusing. But then again, it was midnight, so.... __________________ The beuatiful mind/The beautiful heart/Doesn't deserve the pain/How can I stop the rain? -How Can I Stop the Rain? by Kessid, my new favorite band +Every good thing that comes into my life is only a reflection of the greatest gift of all; the offering of yourself, dear Son of God+ Always remember, you're uniqe, just like everybody else! "The one constant through all the years has been the Trombone. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. Its been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but the Trombone has marked the time. This field, this section, this band is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again. Oh, people will come . . . people will most definitely come."

04-30-2002, 06:31 PM	#4
Ñólendil Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: California Posts: 60,865	Never read Smith, how is it? __________________ Falmon -- Dylan

05-01-2002, 11:15 PM	#7
Blackheart Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Darkness Posts: 1,211	Both are good stories. I also HIGHLY recommend "Leaf by Niggle". It's very interesting, when you consider who Niggle could be seen to represent. __________________ I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ...

05-07-2002, 08:21 PM	#9
Khadrane Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Middle Earth (I wish) Posts: 670	Yeah, "Niggle" was good. Read it on the way home from my sister's B-Ball game. But I thought Tolkien disliked allegory. It seemed kinda like one to me. __________________ Few know whither their road will take them till they come to its end. -Legolas FRODO LIVES! ABORTION IS HOMICIDE

04-27-2002, 09:18 AM	#2
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	I've read them both and liked them. "Smith" is a little hard to understand at times (one of those where you have to re-read parts to try to get the underlying meaning), but Farmer Giles is GREAT. I LOVE that story!

04-30-2002, 07:55 PM	#5
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	It's a strange story, but it's so short it's really worth reading, esp. for Tolkein fans. I liked it.

05-01-2002, 08:41 PM	#6
Liviaine Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ithilien Posts: 203	I read Farmer Giles of Ham over spring break. I liked it.

05-06-2002, 12:24 AM	#8
arynetrek Elf Lord Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 610	"Smith" & "Farmer" are great! Didn't think "Smith" was confusing at all, read it in one sitting (and really should reread it soon, it's such a beautiful little tale). Heard "Niggle" was well worth reading, should look it up next time i go bookstore-hopping... breathe - relax - semester's over, aryne *

04-25-2003, 05:21 AM	#10
Blackboar Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!! Posts: 1,086	I bought that book this morning, I've already rented it from the libary and read it, but I needed to add it to my Tolkien book collection (Now 25 books ) I love the story, I fell in love with Garm. (I got it for 4$, bought it in Las Vegas before I took the 20 hour flight back home.)

04-25-2003, 03:59 PM	#11
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Yes, Garm's funny! I have read both Smith and Farmer Giles and like them both. Smith is interesting and has a rather sad aura about it. Tolkien once said it wasn't a story for children or something like that in one of his letters - here it is, from letter 299 - "An old man's book, already weighted with the presage of 'bereavement'." Leaf by Niggle is also very interesting. __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

06-30-2003, 01:39 AM	#12
Gamigar Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: somewhere between here and there Posts: 116	I was lucky enough to find a REALLY old one, like, from the sixties. It's cool, its got medievel style illistrations. __________________ The road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began Now far ahead the road has gone And I must follow if I can Pursuing it with eager feet Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet And wither then I can not say

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