bookforestsprite 's review for:

Tales from the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien
3.0

I had very mixed reading experiences with the stories in this collection. "Farmer Giles of Ham" was a rather child-like but funny story, a lot of the poems in "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" were beautiful, and "Smith of Wootton Major" had a lot of the magic from Lord of the Rings to it. However, all in all the book was kind of a drag to read at times and lacked the mesmerizing attraction I'm used to for Tolkien stories.