Tales from the Dangerous Kingdom (illustrations by Alan Lee)

This is the most complete collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's famous short stories. Five stories, written as skillfully and elegantly as the beloved "The Hobbit", create a wonderful world that you don't want to leave: the toy dog ​​Roverandom, traveling to the moon and the depths of the sea, finds new friends and learns not to anger wizards; Farmer Giles from Ham, having inadvertently driven away an evil giant, is forced to pretend to be a hero and fight a dragon; "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" tells about the fantastic travels of an old merry fellow and his acquaintance with hobbits, princesses, dwarves and trolls; The blacksmith from Great Wootton happens to swallow a magic star, which becomes his pass to the Land of Faerie; and Mr. Little's Leaf is all that remains in this world of the perfect tree of a little artist who, like all of us, has a long, inevitable journey ahead of him. These stories are complemented by the essay "On Fairy Tales," in which the famous author of "The Lord of the Rings" lays out the theoretical foundations of creativity.