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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
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I have no interest in Tolkien but picked up this 1963 edition at the library for Pauline Baynes's illustrations. They are black and white and gray tone, the smaller ones, some in the margins, all monocolor, and the fullpage ones with orange added.
None of the poetry really roused me although some of the poems, like "The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon," would be good to read to children for their rhythmic quality; sample:
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I have no interest in Tolkien but picked up this 1963 edition at the library for Pauline Baynes's illustrations. They are black and white and gray tone, the smaller ones, some in the margins, all monocolor, and the fullpage ones with orange added.
None of the poetry really roused me although some of the poems, like "The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon," would be good to read to children for their rhythmic quality; sample:
He'd have seas of blues, and the living hues
of forest green and fen;
And he yearned for the mirth of the populous earth
and the sanguine blood of men.
He coveted song, and laughter long,
and viands hot, and wine,
Eating pearly cakes of light snowflakes
and drinking thin moonshine.
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October 30, 2018
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Oct 31, 2018 09:38PM
I think that description would fit.
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