Farmer Giles of Ham and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

Two short stories in prose and poems by the author of The Lord of the Rings — A tale of the days when giants and dragons walked the kingdom. |...| "A peculiar collection of poems and stories. The first, Farmer Giles of Ham is a fairy-tale adventure set in England in the Dark Ages; the second is a collection of poems from the Shire. They seem to have been published together because they have Tolkein in common, but really The Adventures should either stand alone or be added as an appendix to The Lord of the Rings.

There is clearly a lot more to "Tom Bombadil" than meets the eye, as his appearance in Frodo's account and countless folk tales related by generations of Hobbits testifies. So who is he?" -- [Reviews at goodreads.com]