Who wrote “Tree and Leaf” and “Farmer Giles of Ham”?
"children. He wrote annual Christmas letters from Father Christmas for them, building up a series of short stories (later compiled and published as ""The Father Christmas Letters""). Other works included ""Mr. Bliss"" and ""Roverandom"" (for children), and ""Leaf by Niggle"" (part of ""Tree and Leaf""), ""The Adventures of Tom Bombadil"", ""Smith of Wootton Major"" and ""Farmer Giles of Ham"". ""Roverandom"" and ""Smith of Wootton Major"", like ""The Hobbit"", borrowed ideas from his ""legendarium"". Tolkien never expected his stories to become popular, but by sheer accident a book called ""The Hobbit"", which he had written some years before for his own"
"'There they are, there they are.' Eventually drawings by Baynes appeared not only in ""Farmer Giles of Ham"", but also in ""The Adventures of Tom Bombadil"", ""Smith of Wootton Major"", ""Tree and Leaf"" and (after the author's death) the poem ""Bilbo's Last Song"", which appeared as a poster in 1974 and as a book in 1990. Baynes also painted the covers for two British paperback editions of ""The Lord of the Rings"" (in one volume in 1973 and in three volumes in 1981) and produced illustrated poster versions of the maps from ""The Lord of the Rings"" and ""The Hobbit"""
"produced an Oswald cartoon the same year, entitled ""The Merry Old Soul"", which is in reference to the nursery rhyme. ""Farmer Giles of Ham"" (1937) by J.R.R. Tolkien is stated (despite anachronisms like blunderbusses) by the author to take place ""after the time of King Cole, but before king Arthur"". The Three Stooges' 1948 short film ""Fiddlers Three"" features Larry, Moe and Shemp as musicians in King Cole's court who must stop an evil wizard from stealing the king's daughter. In the ""Fables"" comic book, King Cole was the long-time mayor of Fabletown, a secret community of ""Fables"" or fairytale"
"Death"" (1895), both extensively read and enthusiastically received by critics, and ""Magazine Writing and the New Literature"" (1908). He married Ada Foster Murray on 22 February 1900 in Metuchen, New Jersey. His stepdaughter, Aline Murray Kilmer, was a published poet and wife of (Alfred) Joyce Kilmer, author of the famous ""Trees"" poem. With William Dean Howells he edited numerous collections of stories by American writers. He was an early member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died at his home, 521 West 112th Street, in New York City. Henry Mills Alden Henry Mills Alden (November 11, 1836"
"main character of ""Farmer Giles of Ham"" by J. R. R. Tolkien is named Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo. Ahenobarbus Ahenobarbus was a ""cognomen"" used by a plebeian branch of the ""gens Domitia"" in the late Roman Republic and early Empire. The name means ""red-beard"" (literally, ""bronze-beard"") in Latin. According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red. Notable Ahenobarbi"
"his uncle in Old Calton Cemetery. David Hume David Hume (; born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. Hume's empiricist approach to philosophy places him with John Locke, George Berkeley, Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes as a British Empiricist. Beginning with his ""A Treatise of Human Nature"" (1739), Hume strove to create a total naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Against philosophical rationalists, Hume held"
"Kenneth Grahame Kenneth Grahame ( ; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for ""The Wind in the Willows"" (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote ""The Reluctant Dragon"". Both books were later adapted for stage and film, of which A. A. Milne's ""Toad of Toad Hall"" was the first. The Disney films ""The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad"" and ""The Reluctant Dragon"" are other adaptations. Kenneth Grahame was born on 8 March 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was a little more than a year old, his father,"
"Joyce Kilmer Joyce Kilmer (born as Alfred Joyce Kilmer; December 6, 1886 – July 30, 1918) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled ""Trees"" (1913), which was published in the collection ""Trees and Other Poems"" in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Roman Catholic religious faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. While most of his works are largely unknown, a select few of his poems remain popular and are published frequently in anthologies. Several critics—including both"
"work for children. The same poem was later reprinted in Frances Jenkins Olcott's anthology of ""Story-Telling Poems"" (New York, 1913) with the same claim. Although there is ultimately some justice in this, as we have seen, the poem itself very obviously derives from Meissner's German fable and its original (and unacknowledged) Scottish author, Charles Mackay, nowhere credits it with an Eastern origin in the collection in which it first appeared. The Gourd and the Palm-tree The Gourd and the Palm-tree is a rare fable of West Asian origin that was first recorded in Europe in the Middle Ages. In the"
"Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or ""entertainments"" as he termed them). He was shortlisted, in 1966 and 1967, for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Through 67 years of writings, which included over 25 novels, he explored the ambivalent moral and political issues"
"the 2013 documentary film, """". His short story ""The Destructors"" was featured in the 2001 film ""Donnie Darko"". Bibliography Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or ""entertainments"" as he termed them). He was shortlisted, in 1966 and 1967, for the Nobel Prize for"
"seat of the Duke of Northumberland"" - Bonhams and Brooks, London, Lot 47 Oil on board, signed and inscribed on label on verso, 30.7 x 46.5 cm sold for £220 2002 - ""The Road from Tintern to Chepstow"" - Jacobs & Hunt, Petersfield, Hants, watercolour, signed 26 x 37 cm (10 x 14.5 inches) £380 Giles Firman Phillips Giles Firmin Phillips (1780–1867) was an English artist and author. He painted landscapes and river scenes, primarily of the river Thames. His paintings were exhibited, among other venues, at the Royal Academy from 1836 - 1858. He is the author of several"
"Cyril Hume Cyril Hume (March 16, 1900 – March 26, 1966) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Hume was a graduate of Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine ""The Yale Record"". He was an editor of the collection ""The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872-1922"" (1922). He wrote for 29 films between 1924 and 1966, including ""Tarzan the Ape Man"" (1932), ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933), ""The Great Gatsby"" (1949), ""Tokyo Joe"" (1949) and ""Forbidden Planet"" (1956). Hume died on March 26, 1966, just 10 days after his 66th birthday, at his home in Palos Verdes, California, and"
"Graham Diamond Graham Diamond (born 18 August 1949, Manchester, England) is a speculative fiction, fantasy and science fiction author. Born in Manchester, England, his family moved to the United States when he was a young child. He was raised in New York City, on the Upper West Side, and graduated from the High School of Music and Art. He attended CCNY in NY, and the Art Students League of New York. A fine arts major, Diamond turned to professional writing in his late twenties and is best known for books such as ""The Haven"", ""Lady of the Haven"", ""The Thief"
"George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, Imperial police officer, and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is best known for the allegorical novella ""Animal Farm"" (1945) and the dystopian novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" (1949). His non-fiction works, including ""The Road to Wigan Pier"" (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England,"
"Giles Firman Phillips Giles Firmin Phillips (1780–1867) was an English artist and author. He painted landscapes and river scenes, primarily of the river Thames. His paintings were exhibited, among other venues, at the Royal Academy from 1836 - 1858. He is the author of several books on painting and lithography. Phillips was born in 1780, the youngest child of John and Dorothy Phillips (sometimes spelled Philips). Nothing is known about Giles’ childhood and adolescence. There is also no indication of why or how he became an artist. He was not taught at the Royal Academy Schools. The first record of"
"Haven Gillespie James Lamont Gillespie (February 6, 1888 – March 14, 1975) pen name Haven Gillespie, was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of ""You Go to My Head"", ""Honey"", ""By the Sycamore Tree"", ""That Lucky Old Sun"", ""Breezin' Along With The Breeze"", ""Right or Wrong,"" ""Beautiful Love"", ""Drifting and Dreaming"", and ""Louisiana Fairy Tale""(Fats Waller's recording of which was used as the first theme song in the PBS Production of ""This Old House""), each song in collaboration with other people such as Beasley Smith, Ervin R. Schmidt, Richard A. Whiting, Wayne King, and"
"Grace James Grace Edith Marion James (11 November 1882 in Tokyo – 6 February 1965 in Rome) was an English writer of children's literature and a Japanese folklorist. Her ""Japanese Fairy Tales"" (1910) collected and retold stories from the Japanese folk tradition. It was illustrated by Warwick Goble. ""Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy tales"" and ""The Moon Maiden and Other Japanese Fairy Tales"" are other editions of the original collection. ""The Three Dwarf Trees"" is based on a Japanese play. ""Japan: Recollections and Impressions"", a memoir of her experiences in Japan, was first published in 1936. Grace James also"
"was buried in the Whispering Pines section of Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Cyril Hume Cyril Hume (March 16, 1900 – March 26, 1966) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Hume was a graduate of Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine ""The Yale Record"". He was an editor of the collection ""The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872-1922"" (1922). He wrote for 29 films between 1924 and 1966, including ""Tarzan the Ape Man"" (1932), ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933), ""The Great Gatsby"" (1949), ""Tokyo Joe"" (1949) and ""Forbidden Planet"" (1956). Hume died on March 26, 1966, just 10"
"family. Haven Gillespie James Lamont Gillespie (February 6, 1888 – March 14, 1975) pen name Haven Gillespie, was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of ""You Go to My Head"", ""Honey"", ""By the Sycamore Tree"", ""That Lucky Old Sun"", ""Breezin' Along With The Breeze"", ""Right or Wrong,"" ""Beautiful Love"", ""Drifting and Dreaming"", and ""Louisiana Fairy Tale""(Fats Waller's recording of which was used as the first theme song in the PBS Production of ""This Old House""), each song in collaboration with other people such as Beasley Smith, Ervin R. Schmidt, Richard A. Whiting, Wayne King,"
"David Hume David Hume (; born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. Hume's empiricist approach to philosophy places him with John Locke, George Berkeley, Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes as a British Empiricist. Beginning with his ""A Treatise of Human Nature"" (1739), Hume strove to create a total naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Against philosophical rationalists, Hume held that passion rather than reason governs"
"Pam Gems Pam Gems (1 August 1925 – 13 May 2011) was an English playwright. The author of numerous original plays, as well as of adaptations of works by major European playwrights of the past, Gems is best known for the 1978 musical play ""Piaf"". Iris Pamela Price was born in Bransgore, Hampshire, and had her first play – a tale of goblins and elves – staged when she was eight by her fellow pupils at primary school. She studied psychology at Manchester University from which she graduated in 1949. She was in her forties when she started to write"
"Island""', in which descent they recognise they 'originally came of a good stock'. Phineas Fletcher Phineas Fletcher (8 April 1582 – 13 December 1650) was an English poet, elder son of Dr Giles Fletcher, and brother of Giles the Younger. He was born at Cranbrook, Kent, and was baptized on 8 April 1582. He was admitted a scholar of Eton, and in 1600 entered King's College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1604, and M.A. in 1608, and was one of the contributors to ""Sorrow's Joy"" (1603). His pastoral drama, ""Sicelides, or Piscatory"" was written (1614) for performance before James I,"
"Leigh"" (1857) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ""Lucile"" (1860) by 'Owen Meredith' (Robert Bulwer-Lytton), and ""The Ring and the Book"" (1868-9) by Robert Browning. The form appears to have declined with Modernism, but has since the 1960s-70s undergone a remarkable revival. Vladimir Nabokov's ""Pale Fire"" (1962) takes the form of a 999-line poem four cantos, though the plot of the novel unfolds in the commentary. Of particular note, Vikram Seth's ""The Golden Gate"" (1986) was a surprise bestseller, and Derek Walcott's ""Omeros"" (1990) a more predictable success. The form has been particularly popular in the Caribbean, with work since 1980 by"
"""Reflection Nebula"". ""Happy as the Grass Was Green"" became the title of a 1973 drama film. Fern Hill Fern Hill (1945) is a poem by Dylan Thomas, first published in the October, 1945, Horizon magazine, with its first book publication as the last poem in ""Deaths and Entrances"". The house Fernhill is just outside Llangain in Carmarthenshire. Thomas had extended stays here in the 1920s with his aunt Annie and her husband, Jim Jones, and wrote about the house in his short story, ""The Peaches"". His holidays here have been recalled in interviews with his schoolboy friends, and both the"
"George Balch Nevin George Balch Nevin (March 15, 1859 – April 17, 1933) was an American composer and businessman. A member of the Nevin musical family, his cousins were the composers Ethelbert and Arthur Nevin; his son, Gordon Balch Nevin, also became a composer. Nevin was born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, and spent most of his life in the town of Easton. His output consisted mainly of cantatas, and included such works as ""The Crown of Life"" and ""The Incarnation""; he was also known for his setting of Sidney Lanier's poem ""A Ballad of Trees and the Master"", and wrote a"
"Leaves of Grass Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Although the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing ""Leaves of Grass"", revising it multiple times until his death. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades—the first, a small book of twelve poems and the last, a compilation of over 400. The poems of ""Leaves of Grass"" are loosely connected, with each representing Whitman's celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. This book is notable for its discussion of delight in"
"for ""The Land of Narnia: Brian Sibley Explores the World of C. S. Lewis"" (1998). When she began work on the Narnia books she was already the chosen illustrator of Lewis's friend and colleague J. R. R. Tolkien. In her obituary for ""The Daily Telegraph"", Charlotte Cory described how Baynes and Tolkien came to be associated: In 1948 Tolkien was visiting his publishers, George Allen & Unwin, to discuss some disappointing artwork that they had commissioned for his novella ""Farmer Giles of Ham"", when he spotted, lying on a desk, some witty reinterpretations of medieval marginalia from the Luttrell Psalter"
"George Garrett (poet) George Palmer Garrett (June 11, 1929 – May 25, 2008) was an American poet and novelist. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2004. His novels include ""The Finished Man"","" Double Vision"", and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of ""Death of the Fox"", ""The Succession"", and ""Entered from the Sun"". He worked as a book reviewer and screenwriter, and taught at Cambridge University and, for many years, at the University of Virginia. He is the subject of critical books by R. H. W. Dillard, Casey Clabough, and Irving Malin. George Palmer Garrett was born in"
"The Kilns The Kilns, also known as C. S. Lewis House, is the house on the outskirts of Headington Quarry (where Lewis is buried at Holy Trinity Church) in the village of Risinghurst, Oxford, England, where the author C. S. Lewis wrote all of his Narnia books and other classics. The house itself was featured in the Narnia books. Lewis's gardener at The Kilns, Fred Paxford, is said to have inspired the character of Puddleglum the Marshwiggle in ""The Silver Chair"". The Kilns was built in 1922 on the site of a former brickworks. The lake in the garden is"
"The Kilns The Kilns, also known as C. S. Lewis House, is the house on the outskirts of Headington Quarry (where Lewis is buried at Holy Trinity Church) in the village of Risinghurst, Oxford, England, where the author C. S. Lewis wrote all of his Narnia books and other classics. The house itself was featured in the Narnia books. Lewis's gardener at The Kilns, Fred Paxford, is said to have inspired the character of Puddleglum the Marshwiggle in ""The Silver Chair"". The Kilns was built in 1922 on the site of a former brickworks. The lake in the garden is"
"Adobe Flash animation of Nicholls's ""unparalleled fold-out pig"". Bacon and Hams Bacon and Hams is a 1917 book by George J. Nicholls, a member of the Institute of Certificated Grocers. The book details the then-modern bacon and ham industry beginning with the use of the pig breeds, meat processing and the distribution and pricing of cuts with a focus on the United Kingdom. The meat processing aspects focus on the popular Wiltshire cut of the time, but also includes American cuts as well. The book was described, with approbation, by the Saskatchewan Overseas Livestock Marketing Commission, as an ""admirable and"
"is the one described by Newton. A descendant of the original tree can be seen growing outside the main gate of Trinity College, Cambridge, below the room Newton lived in when he studied there. The National Fruit Collection at Brogdale can supply grafts from their tree, which appears identical to Flower of Kent, a coarse-fleshed cooking variety. Religion Writings by Newton Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (described in his own day as a ""natural philosopher"") who is widely recognised as one of the most"