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Bombadil Goes Boating
J. R. R. Tolkien · 1962poem
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- Themefriendship
Written for this 1962 collection, the poem follows Tom Bombadil paddling a boat down the Withywindle and Brandywine, trading cheerful insults with otter, heron, and swan before landing, uninvited, at Farmer Maggot's door for supper.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- contained in A Tolkien Miscellanyomnibus
- contained in Farmer Giles of Ham / The Adventures of Tom Bombadilomnibus
- contained in Poems and Storiesomnibus
- contained in Tales from the Perilous Realmomnibus
- contained in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Bookcollection
- contained in The Tolkien Readeromnibus
- contained in Tolkien Fantasy Tales Box Setomnibus