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This article refers to the collection of in-universe poems. For other namesakes, see The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (disambiguation).

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book is a collection of poetry by J.R.R. Tolkien, published in 1962. The book contains 16 poems, only two of which deal with Tom Bombadil, a character most famous for his encounter with Frodo Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume in Tolkien's best-selling The Lord of the Rings. The rest of the poems are an assortment of bestiary verse and fairy tale rhyme.

The collection is included in Tales from the Perilous Realm (published in 2008) alongside many of Tolkien's stories for children, with illustrations by Alan Lee. An audiobook of this was produced in 2010, narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi.

A 2014 edition prepared by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond features Pauline Baynes' original artwork, along with a new Introduction, a 'commentary' section discussing each poem's history, and early versions of the poems. An appendix includes an unreleased fragment of a prose story concerning Bombadil, and two additional poems: "Once upon a Time" and "An Evening in Tavrobel".

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Canon[]

The character Tom Bombadil, named originally after a child's toy[1], appeared in these poems before his inclusion to the mythology of Arda and The Lord of the Rings.

Like the first edition of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is presented in the pretense of an actual translation from the Red Book of Westmarch, and contains some background information on Middle-earth not found elsewhere. Examples are the name of the tower at Dol Amroth and the names of the Seven Rivers of Gondor. The book serves as a small, poetic venture into the types of creative works that Hobbits made. In short, each poem is a Secondary World within a Secondary World.

Translations[]

Foreign Language Translated name
Afrikaans Die Avonture van Tom Bombadil
Albanian Aventurat e Tom Bombadil
Amharic የቶም ቦምባዲል ጀብዱዎች
Arabic مغامرات توم بومباديل
Armenian Թոմ Բոմբադիլ արկածները
Assamese টম বম্বাডিলৰ দুঃসাহসিকতা
Asturian Les Aventures de Tom Bombadil
Azerbaijani Tom Bombadilin macəraları
Basque Tom Bombadil abenturak
Belarusian Cyrillic Прыгоды Тома Бамбадзіла
Bengali টম বোম্বাদিল এর এডভেন্ঞার ট্যুরিজম
Bosnian Pustolovine Toma Bombadila
Bulgarian Cyrillic Приключенията на Том Бомбадил
Catalan Les aventures de Tom Bombadil
Chinese 湯姆·龐巴迪歷險記
Corsican L'avventura di Tom Bombadil
Croatian Avanture Tom Bombadila
Czech Příhody Toma Bombadila
Danish Tom Bombadils Eventyr
Dari ماجراجویی های تام بومبادیل
Dutch De avonturen van Tom Bombadil
Esperanto La Aventuroj de Tom Bombadil
Estonian Tom Bombadil seiklused
Faroese Ævintýrini hjá Tom Bombadil
Filipino Ang mga pakikipagsapalaran ni Tom Bombadil
Finnish Tom Bombadilin seikkailut
French Les Aventures de Tom Bombadil
Frisian De Aventoeren fan Tom Bombadil (Western)
Galician As aventuras de Tom Bombadil
Georgian ტომ ბომბადილის თავგადასავლები
German Die Abenteuer des Tom Bombadil
Greek Οι Περιπέτειες του Τομ Μπόμπαντιλ
Gujarati ટોમ બોમ્બદિલ ઓફ એડવેન્ચર્સ
Hebrew הרפתקאות תום בומבדיל
Hindi को टॉम बमडेल के एडवेंचर्स
Hungarian Bombadil Toma kalandjai
Icelandic Ævintýri Tom Bombadil
Indonesian Petualangan Tom Bombadil
Italian Le avventure di Tom Bombadil
Japanese トム・ボンバディルの冒険
Kannada ಟಾಮ್ ಬೊಮ್ಬದಿಲ ಅಡ್ವೆಂಚರ್ಸ್
Korean 톰 폭탄 박람회의 모험
Laotian ເລື່ອງຮາວທີ່ແປງຂອງ ຖໂມ ບໂມບະດິລ
Latin Adventurae Tom Bombadilis
Latvian Tom Bombadil piedzīvojumi
Lithuanian Tom Bombadil nuotykiai
Luxembourgish D'Abenteuer vum Tom Bombadil
Macedonian Cyrillic Авантурите на Том Бомбадил
Maithili टॉम बम्बडिल के रोमांच
Malaysian Pengembaraan Tom Bombadil
Maltese L-avventuri ta 'Tom Bombadil
Marathi टॉम बोंबाडिलचा एडवेंचर्स
Mongolian Cyrillic Том Бомбадилын адал явдал
Nepalese एडवेंचर्स टॉम बोम्बदिल
Norwegian Eventyrene til Tom Bombadil
Occitan Las Aventuras de Tom Bombadil
Persian ماجراهای تام بمبادیل
Polish Przygody Toma Bombadila
Portuguese As Aventuras de Tom Bombadil
Romanian Aventurile lui Tom Bombadil
Russian Приключения Тома Бомбадила
Samoan O Mea tutupu a Tom Bombadil
Sardinian Sas Aventuras de Tom Bombadil
Scottish Gaelic Na Tachartasan aig Tom Bombadil
Serbian Авантуре Том Бомбадила (Cyrillic) Avanture Tom Bombadila (Latin)
Sicilian Li Avvinturi di Tom Bombadil
Sindhi ٹام بمعدل جو مہم جوئی ?
Sinhalese ටොම් බොඹදිල් ඇඩ්වෙන්චර්ස්
Slovenian Pustolovščine Tom Bombadil
Slovak Dobrodružstvo Tom Bombadil
Somali Hawlaha ee Tom Bombadil
Spanish Las aventuras de Tom Bombadil
Swedish Tom Bombadills äventyr
Tajik Cyrillic Саргузаштхои Том Бомбадил
Tamil டாம் பொம்பாடுல் அட்வென்ச்சர்ஸ்
Telugu ది అడ్వెంచర్స్ ఆఫ్ టామ్ బొమ్బదిల
Thai การผจญภัยของทอมบอมบาดิล
Turkish Tom Bombadil'in Maceraları
Turkmen Tom Bombadiliň Başdan geçirmeleri
Ukrainian Cyrillic Пригоди Тома Бомбадила
Uzbek Том Бомбадилнинг саргузаштлари (Cyrillic) Tom Bombadilning sarguzashtlari (Latin)
Vietnamese Cuộc phiêu lưu của Tom Bombadil
Welsh Anturiaethau o Tom Bombadil
Xhosa Kwiintlanga zeTom Bombadil
Yiddish די אַדווענטורעס פון טאָם באָמבאַדיל
Yoruba Awọn Iṣẹlẹ ti Tom Bombadil

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External link[]

J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
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