![]() The manuscript claims that the fable gives the reasons for certain place names in England's county of Oxfordshire, which is where the “Middle Kingdom” of the story seems to take place. Tolkien was so taken with Bayne's illustrations that he is quoted as having said, “They reduced my text to a commentary on her drawings.” It is said Farmer Giles of Ham was translated from a medieval manuscript, written originally in Latin. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia in the 1950s, originally illustrated the book. Noted artist Pauline Baynes, who also famously illustrated C.S. The story is not set in Middle-Earth, but rather in a fictionalized and anachronistic Dark Ages England (for instance, aside from the obvious – dragons – one thing that the story's England contains that Medieval England actually did not is firearms). ![]() The story follows the adventures of the unlikely Farmer Giles and his talking dog, Garm, as they parlay a unique skill for overmastering large foes into great wealth and acclaim. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tolkien, the famous writer of The Hobbit, and many other stories set in the fictional Middle-Earth. Farmer Giles of Ham is a 1949 a satiric fable by J.R.R. ![]()
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