He is fat and red-bearded and enjoys a slow, comfortable life. Plot summary įarmer Giles ( Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo, "Giles Redbeard Julius, Farmer of Ham") is not a hero. Wilkinson of that College who egged me to it.
Wilkinson on a fly-leaf, since it was Col. For that reason I should like to put an inscription to C. was, in fact, written to order, to be read to the Lovelace Society at Worcester College and was read to them at a sitting. Tolkien gives the reason for this dedication in a letter to the publisher, dated 5 July 1947: Tolkien dedicated Farmer Giles of Ham to Cyril Hackett Wilkinson (1888–1960), a don he knew at Oxford University. The story has appeared with other works by Tolkien in omnibus editions, including The Tolkien Reader and Tales from the Perilous Realm. The book was originally illustrated by Pauline Baynes. It is only tangentially connected with the author's Middle-earth legendarium: both were originally intended as essays in "English mythology".
It is cheerfully anachronistic and light-hearted, set in Britain in an imaginary period of the Dark Ages, and featuring mythical creatures, medieval knights, and primitive firearms. The story describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax, and how Giles manages to use these to rise from humble beginnings to rival the king of the land. The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Sonįarmer Giles of Ham is a comic medieval fable written by J.
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