The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book

[Corbier]

A new edition of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book will be published in October this year. This is espcially interesting (to me):

This new edition will contain the sixteen poems as published in 1962, together with the original drawings by Pauline Baynes. But it will also include earlier versions of the poems, where earlier versions exist – some of these were published in magazines and journals which are now hard to find – and it will reprint a later ‘Bombadil’ poem, Once upon a Time. In addition, we are very pleased to be allowed to publish for the first time, from Tolkien’s manuscript, the predecessor of Perry-the-Winkle, called The Bumpus, and the complete, tantalizingly brief fragment of a prose story featuring Tom Bombadil, in the days of ‘King Bonhedig’.

 

[Extollager]

I'm keen to see this. The Adventures with Baynes's pictures is one of my favorite books. I wonder if there's any chance the illustrations in the new edition will be newly reproduced from the originals (as in the case of some reprints of classics illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, or recent editions of Beatrix Potter's books)? I hope so.

 

[Corbier]

Just the name King Bonhedig thrills me already... Unfortunately my Welsh isn't all that good, but I believe it means "nobel one".

Edit: I think it's Welsh because of this nifty website: http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.caerdydd.ac.uk/en/wordlist.php?prefix=bonhedigeid

 

[Extollager]

A new edition of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book will be published in October this year.

Are you at liberty to say where this was announced?

 

[Extollager]

Are you at liberty to say where this was announced?

Too Many Books and Never Enough |   The Weblog of Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull

That seems like a good source for this very good news.