Talk:Tree and Leaf

Contents of Collection

No sure when The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son was added to this book - one site says it was in 2001 with the Harper Collins edition, but another site says 1975. Also, should Smith of Wootton Major be listed here?

Gandalf 16:39, 10 April 2006 (UTC)abdullahazzam

The Book is the "Tolkien Reader"

"Tree and Leaf" is merely a section in the book "The Tolkien Reader." "Farmer Giles of Ham," "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil," "Tolkien's Magic Ring," "Mythopoeia," and "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son," are in the book "The Tolkien Reader" along with "Tree and Leaf."

At least in my book, is anyone else's different?

-Demosthenes- 05:29, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Tree and Leaf, and most of the others you list, was originally published as a separate book during Tolkien's lifetime. After his death those and others were compiled into a few 'anthologies' like The Tolkien Reader. The originals are now difficult to come by, but by coincidence I have a copy of Tree and Leaf... it was a very small book with generally poor quality paper and binding. --CBDunkerson 10:52, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Development of book

The article is currently incorrect; the Homecoming was added in the 1975 edition, before "Mythopoeia" in 1988. I will correct this, but I would like to add an account of the different forewords.

The 1988 edition includes a "Preface" by Christopher Tolkien, which quotes in its entirety J. R. R. Tolkien's "Introductory Note" from the 1975 edition. Obviously, JRRT was not around to write an introduction in 1975, but I suppose it may have been prepared before his death but not published till later. Can anyone confirm whether this "Introductory Note" was actually part of the first edition in 1964? -- Verbarson  ^talk_edits 18:56, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Also Smith of Wootton Major was in the 1975 edition, but not the 1988. -- Verbarson  ^talk_edits 18:59, 17 November 2024 (UTC)