![]() ![]() ![]() “Smith of Wootton Major” is the story of a boy who swallows a faery star as a child, and what happens to him after. Little kids don’t care about that kind of thing. If you think about either of them for too long, the worldbuilding in both makes less and less sense. It is situated in a very firm date and place. People call The Hobbit a children’s book, in that Tolkien created it as a bedtime story for his son Christopher, but The Hobbit has precise worldbuilding and consistently follows the in-universe rules Tolkien created for himself. Both are what Tolkien himself would have called “fairy-stories”, and both are very obviously written for children. There are two short stories in this slim little book, although really I think “Farmer Giles of Ham,” the second of the two, is more novella-length. ![]() And it was fun! A little weird, a little nonsensical (and whimsical), but fun. (I no longer remember how I used to keep track of books I wanted to read before Goodreads.) It was also one of the first books I pulled out of my TBR Jar for 2022, and really, it was about time. I have owned a copy of this book since before I was on Goodreads, and it’s been on my “TBR” even longer than that. ![]()
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