![]() Asshole Victim: In the ending Chrysophylax pays a visit to the giant who had given him the erroneous information that had begun his misadventure with Giles.500 AD), but Giles wields a blunderbuss (a musket-like gun that wouldn't be invented until several centuries later), and the whole thing feels more like a generic mythic "past" than a specific time period. ![]() ![]() Anachronism Stew: The story claims to take place "before Arthur or the Seven Kingdoms of the English " (which suggests, before c.This collaboration led to a lifelong friendship between writer and illustrator. It was published in 1949 with illustrations by Pauline Baynes, which Tolkien famously said had “reduced text to a commentary on her drawings”. Tolkien’s love of wordplay is strongly evident, especially with regard to place names, and the story is much lighter in tone than some of his other works. It is a comedic tale about the adventures of a rather plump farmer and his dog Garm, set in Mediaeval England but parodying the traditional picture of dragon-slaying knights of that era. Farmer Giles of Ham was written in 1937 by J. ![]()
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