The Bovadium Fragments by J.R.R. Tolkien Groundswell Speaker 2024

The Bovadium Fragments by J.R.R. Tolkien Groundswell Speaker 2024World first publication of a previously unknown short satirical fantasy by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, and accompanied by illustrations from the author together with an essay, The Origin of Bovadium, by Richard Ovenden OBE. As Christopher Tolkien notes in his Introduction, The Bovadium Fragments was a satirical fantasy written by his father, which grew out of a planning controversy that erupted in Oxford in the late

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