“The Adventures of Tom Bombadil” is a book of poems of Middle Earth, of which only the first two relate to Tom Bombadil – the enigmatic creature looking like a man but having powers no man possesses.
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This wonderful story was originally written as a fairy tale for children, and served its purpose well – but now it’s mostly known for the fact that the famous “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy grew out of it.
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Reviewing “The Lord of the Rings” seems a task comparable to moving the Eiffel Tower. Three huge volumes of exciting adventures happening in a totally different imaginary world are certainly too great, too epic and too important for the world literature to receive just a usual brief review. They deserve a lot more than that – at the very least, an article.
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