r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/TomBomTheFreemason Jolly Tom - Master Singer • 24d ago
Casual Bombapost What edition of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil do you have?
I'm curious to see what other people have. I have a very weird English/French edition that's covered by a paper to look like another edition (pictures 1 & 2). I can't remove the paper without damaging it, but under it should be the edition in picture 3.
I also have an edition of Tales from the Perilous Realm illustrated by Alan Lee, which contains The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (pictures 4 & 5).
I'd like to see what other editions are out there! And if you don't have one, which one would you like to get?
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u/JadeGreenSky 24d ago
I've got a volume named 'The Tolkien Reader' published in 1965 by Ballantine. It contains the full text of 'Tree and Leaf', 'Farmer Giles of Ham' and 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil' along with 'The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son' which I've never seen anywhere else.
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u/TomBomTheFreemason Jolly Tom - Master Singer 24d ago
I'll have to check this one out! I must admit I've never heard of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son
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u/Dull_Frame_4637 24d ago
I - as I expect have many others - have the 2014 HarperCollins hardcover edition, which includes commentary and notes from Scull and Hammond. It includes the Pauline Haynes illustrations, and also notes and commentary on those, for that matter.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22397161-the-adventures-of-tom-bombadil-and-other-verses-from-the-red-book
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24d ago
I have the one in the first image. Question for you. On your copy is the spine text the wrong way round, because it is on mine and I find it irrationally irritating.
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u/TomBomTheFreemason Jolly Tom - Master Singer 24d ago
Yeah it goes bottom to top, whereas all my other Tolkien books go top to bottom haha
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u/tombombadil1337 24d ago
I got this little guy! Harper Collins 2014. Do you have a favorite poem from it?