• The Hero of the Countryside

  • Jun 24 2024
  • Length: 57 mins
  • Podcast

The Hero of the Countryside

  • Summary

  • In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam discuss Tolkien's 1949 comic short story Farmer Giles of Ham.


    Primary sources:

    Farmer Giles of Ham (PDF) | Tales From The Perilous Realm (includes FGoH as well as all of Tolkien's other "minor works") | The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien


    Secondary sources:

    Kocher - Master of Middle-earth (out of print)


    Link to the Alan Lee illustration of Farmer Giles and his blunderbuss


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