Farmer Giles of Ham: Difference between revisions
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It was published in 1949 with illustrations by Pauline Baynes, which Tolkien famously said had “reduced [his] text to a commentary on her drawings”. This collaboration lead to a lifelong friendship between writer and illustrator.
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* [[Altum Videtur]]: Or in the vulgar, A Lotta Latin appears in the ''mira fascinora''.
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: The story claims to take place during the [[wikipedia:Heptarchy|Heptarchy]] (c. AD 500-927) but Giles wields a blunderbuss (an old-fashioned musket), and the whole thing feels more like a generic mythic "past" than a specific time period.
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