Review:J.R.R. Tolkien's legacy to the world was a tale of Hobbits and Rings. In Tales From the Perilous Realm, four short stories are added, only one of which is clearly a Hobbitish tale:

* Farmer Giles of Ham: A farmer gains courage as his dog loses it in search of a dragon.

* Smith of Wootton Major: Mysterious processes are afoot regarding cooks, travelers, children, and fairies.

* Leaf by Niggle: A relatively dark dramatization of an artist's creative focus.

* The... Read more

Review:The translation by Tolkien is excellent, but 75% of this 400 page book is commentary, which, if you love commentary, I guess is OK.
That's a lot of commentary, though. I would look at this book at your local library before adding it to your collection. Read more

Review:i actually purchased this for my husband to read to our daughter before bed. we are huge tolkien fans and my four year old loves to hear daddy reciete this beautiful poem before bed. i would recomend this to any tolkien fan. Read more

Review:Once again (and likely for the last time), Christopher Tolkien has passed to us our own Silmaril, diligently pieced together, from the very hand of his father. The respect and honor with which the son edits the father's many passages, letters, journals, and spoken word is no less evident than when doing so in The Children of Húrin. The care he takes to ensure that the editor not overpower the author is executed with great difficulty and expert precision. This is a beautiful story that has finall... Read more

Review:We may be up in our years, but we've always collected and enjoyed good childrens poetry. We read to our kids and now to our grandchildren. Shel Silverstein was always a favorite and this should put a smile in any heart, young or old. Read more

Review:Grendel is a really interesting book, which will captivate your heart for the antagonist. The author, John Gardener portrayed Grendel as an innocent creature who is force to become evil due to humans and a dragon who steers him wrong. This book is mainly about how Grendel reaches the state in which he becomes total destructive. In the first part of the book Grendel wanted to become friends with humans, but humans feared him due to his physical apperance in which we all notice at first and judge... Read more

Review:Ladinsky reinvents poems, songs, and even prose passages from twelve renowned saints, imposing modern idioms on the original material. This sounds sacrilegious, yet surprisingly it actually works. The saints' words come back to life, perhaps not always in forms the original author would recognize, but in ways that speak eloquently to today's reader. Read more

Review:Lang leav speaks the language my soul has longed to hear. My souls native tongue of the ecstasy, and intricacies of love lost and found.

I've talked her poetry up quit a bit with my friends and it has been beautiful to share them with. Read more

Review:I was slightly disappointed overall. I was really excited about this book after reading a few poems by Faudet on tumblr, but as it turned out, those few lovely gems I had found before actually buying the book were the only bits worth reading. I found myself flipping through page after page, wishing I'd read more material along the lines of Stars:

Magic tumbled from her pretty lips, and when she spoke the language of the universe, the stars sighed in unison.

What beautiful, sweeping... Read more

Review:I left a bookstore without it and literally bought as soon as I got home. I'm not much of a literary person, but these poems are clever and speak to me on a personal level. I particularly enjoy when she personifies characteristics or words. Read more