The Great Wootton Blacksmith - Hardcover Book

Back Cover Text (From the Promotional Bulletin)

The Good Boys' Feast was held every 24 years in the village of Great Wootton. To celebrate this, a Big Cake was prepared to feed the 24 children invited to this feast. The cake would be very sweet and rich, and covered from top to bottom with frosting. But very, very strange ingredients were also used in this cake, and children who swallowed one of them could visit Fairyland...

The preface that Tolkien started writing for George MacDonald's The Golden Key turned into this delightful tale. Written almost a decade after The Lord of the Rings and as the lifelong creation of The Silmarillion drew to a close, The Great Smithy of Wootton is the product of Tolkien's lifetime of experiences and ideas, and is the last work of fiction published during Tolkien's lifetime.

Now, almost 55 years later, this is the story of a traveler who finds himself in the dangerous land of the Fairies; Tolkien's first draft meets with readers again, along with his notes on the origin of the story, an alternative ending, and an unpublished article he wrote on the nature of Fairies.

“This book has a lasting impact, a common feature of 'deep' folk tales. “Brilliant and memorable.”

Times Educational Supplement

“The more closely you examine this tale, the more the magnificence of the idea behind it reveals itself; “Whether you are seven or seventy, you will want to read.”

New Statesman

Prepared for Publication: Emre Aygün

Proofreading: Alican Saygı Ortanca

Cover Application: Hamdi Akçay

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

First Printing Year: 2018

Number of Pages: 216

Size: 11 x 15