The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
I finished this book in one go last night. It was pleasantly light reading. Basically it's just a bunch of casual poems and rhymes that fill out some more details on Tom Bombadil's life (though it's still unclear where he came from and what exactly he is -- it seems to be a fair inference that he might be a Maia, or at least one of the Ainur) and introduce a few related characters as well. I think I'm going to reread Unfinished Tales sometime soon... If only JRR were around to write more on Middle-earth.
I think the only problem I had with the film version of LOTR was that it completely excluded Tom Bombadil, and I would have loved for him to have had some screen time. Still, I suppose it was hard enough to film such a saga anyway, without accommodating every interesting character.
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Bombadil may be my favourite character in the trilogy. I hated that he was left out of the movies, but I to understand why...
I also loved Fatty Lumpkin!
I must read this.