The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book is a collection of poetry by J.R.R. Tolkien, published in 1962. The book contains 16 poems, only two of which deal with Tom Bombadil, a character most famous for his encounter with Frodo Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume in Tolkien's best-selling The Lord of the Rings. The rest of the poems are an assortment of bestiary verse and fairy tale rhyme.
The collection is included in Tales from the Perilous Realm (published in 2008) alongside many of Tolkien's stories for children, with illustrations by Alan Lee. An audiobook of this was produced in 2010, narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi.
A 2014 edition prepared by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond features Pauline Baynes' original artwork, along with a new Introduction, a 'commentary' section discussing each poem's history, and early versions of the poems. An appendix includes an unreleased fragment of a prose story concerning Bombadil, and two additional poems: "Once upon a Time" and "An Evening in Tavrobel".
==Contents==
*Introduction
*About the Artist
*Preface
*#The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
*#Bombadil Goes Boating
*#Errantry
*#Little Princess Mee
*#The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
*#The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
*#The Stone Troll
*#Perry-the-Winkle
*#The Mewlips
*#Oliphaunt
*#Fastitocalon
*#Cat
*#Shadow-Bride
*#The Hoard
*#The Sea-Bell
*#The Last Ship
*Commentary
**Preface
**The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
**Bombadil Goes Boating
**Errantry
**Little Princess Mee
**The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
**The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
**The Stone Troll
**Perry-the-Winkle
**The Mewlips
**Oliphaunt
**Fastitocalon
**Cat
**Shadow-Bride
**The Hoard
**The Sea-Bell
**The Last Ship
*Gallery
*Appendix
**I. Tom Bombadil: A Prose Fragment
**II. Once upon a Time and An Evening in Tavrobel
*Footnotes
==Canon==
The character Tom Bombadil, named originally after a child's toyTales from the Perilous Realm, Introduction, xi, appeared in these poems before his inclusion to the mythology of Arda and The Lord of the Rings.
Like the first edition of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is presented in the pretense of an actual translation from the Red Book of Westmarch, and contains some background information on Middle-earth not found elsewhere. Examples are the name of the tower at Dol Amroth and the names of the Seven Rivers of Gondor. The book serves as a small, poetic venture into the types of creative works that Hobbits made. In short, each poem is a Secondary World within a Secondary World.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Die Avonture van Tom Bombadil
Albanian 	Aventurat e Tom Bombadil
Amharic 	የቶም ቦምባዲል ጀብዱዎች
Arabic 	مغامرات توم بومباديل
Armenian 	Թոմ Բոմբադիլ արկածները
Assamese 	টম বম্বাডিলৰ দুঃসাহসিকতা
Asturian 	Les Aventures de Tom Bombadil
Azerbaijani 	Tom Bombadilin macəraları
Basque 	Tom Bombadil abenturak
Belarusian Cyrillic	Прыгоды Тома Бамбадзіла
Bengali 	টম বোম্বাদিল এর এডভেন্ঞার ট্যুরিজম
Bosnian 	Pustolovine Toma Bombadila
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Приключенията на Том Бомбадил
Catalan 	Les aventures de Tom Bombadil
Chinese 	湯姆·龐巴迪歷險記
Corsican 	L'avventura di Tom Bombadil
Croatian 	Avanture Tom Bombadila
Czech 	Příhody Toma Bombadila
Danish 	Tom Bombadils Eventyr
Dari 	ماجراجویی های تام بومبادیل
Dutch 	De avonturen van Tom Bombadil
Esperanto 	La Aventuroj de Tom Bombadil
Estonian 	Tom Bombadil seiklused
Faroese 	Ævintýrini hjá Tom Bombadil
Filipino 	Ang mga pakikipagsapalaran ni Tom Bombadil
Finnish 	Tom Bombadilin seikkailut
French 	Les Aventures de Tom Bombadil
Frisian 	De Aventoeren fan Tom Bombadil (Western)
Galician 	As aventuras de Tom Bombadil
Georgian 	ტომ ბომბადილის თავგადასავლები
German 	Die Abenteuer des Tom Bombadil
Greek 	Οι Περιπέτειες του Τομ Μπόμπαντιλ
Gujarati 	ટોમ બોમ્બદિલ ઓફ એડવેન્ચર્સ
Hebrew 	הרפתקאות תום בומבדיל
Hindi 	को टॉम बमडेल के एडवेंचर्स
Hungarian 	Bombadil Toma kalandjai
Icelandic 	Ævintýri Tom Bombadil
Indonesian 	Petualangan Tom Bombadil
Italian 	Le avventure di Tom Bombadil
Japanese 	トム・ボンバディルの冒険
Kannada 	ಟಾಮ್ ಬೊಮ್ಬದಿಲ ಅಡ್ವೆಂಚರ್ಸ್
Korean 	톰 폭탄 박람회의 모험
Laotian 	ເລື່ອງຮາວທີ່ແປງຂອງ ຖໂມ ບໂມບະດິລ
Latin 	Adventurae Tom Bombadilis
Latvian 	Tom Bombadil piedzīvojumi
Lithuanian 	Tom Bombadil nuotykiai
Luxembourgish 	D'Abenteuer vum Tom Bombadil
Macedonian Cyrillic	Авантурите на Том Бомбадил
Maithili 	टॉम बम्बडिल के रोमांच
Malaysian 	Pengembaraan Tom Bombadil
Maltese 	L-avventuri ta 'Tom Bombadil
Marathi 	टॉम बोंबाडिलचा एडवेंचर्स
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Том Бомбадилын адал явдал
Nepalese 	एडवेंचर्स टॉम बोम्बदिल
Norwegian 	Eventyrene til Tom Bombadil
Occitan 	Las Aventuras de Tom Bombadil
Persian 	ماجراهای تام بمبادیل
Polish 	Przygody Toma Bombadila
Portuguese 	As Aventuras de Tom Bombadil
Romanian 	Aventurile lui Tom Bombadil
Russian 	Приключения Тома Бомбадила
Samoan 	O Mea tutupu a Tom Bombadil
Sardinian 	Sas Aventuras de Tom Bombadil
Scottish Gaelic 	Na Tachartasan aig Tom Bombadil
Serbian 	Авантуре Том Бомбадила (Cyrillic) Avanture Tom Bombadila (Latin)
Sicilian 	Li Avvinturi di Tom Bombadil
Sindhi 	ٹام بمعدل جو مہم جوئی ?
Sinhalese 	ටොම් බොඹදිල් ඇඩ්වෙන්චර්ස්
Slovenian 	Pustolovščine Tom Bombadil
Slovak 	Dobrodružstvo Tom Bombadil
Somali 	Hawlaha ee Tom Bombadil
Spanish 	Las aventuras de Tom Bombadil
Swedish 	Tom Bombadills äventyr
Tajik Cyrillic 	Саргузаштхои Том Бомбадил
Tamil 	டாம் பொம்பாடுல் அட்வென்ச்சர்ஸ்
Telugu 	ది అడ్వెంచర్స్ ఆఫ్ టామ్ బొమ్బదిల
Thai 	การผจญภัยของทอมบอมบาดิล
Turkish 	Tom Bombadil'in Maceraları
Turkmen 	Tom Bombadiliň Başdan geçirmeleri
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Пригоди Тома Бомбадила
Uzbek 	Том Бомбадилнинг саргузаштлари (Cyrillic) Tom Bombadilning sarguzashtlari (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Cuộc phiêu lưu của Tom Bombadil
Welsh 	Anturiaethau o Tom Bombadil
Xhosa 	Kwiintlanga zeTom Bombadil
Yiddish 	די אַדווענטורעס פון טאָם באָמבאַדיל
Yoruba 	Awọn Iṣẹlẹ ti Tom Bombadil
== References ==
==External link==
*Additions and corrections to the book made by Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull
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