The Bovadium Fragments by J.R.R. Tolkien Groundswell Speaker 2024 Unsettling and totally unpredictable -

Unsettling and totally unpredictable - my copy is now heavily underlined' Sally Rooney 'Darkly comic' Observer'[A] short

one that is not yet lost and whose wisdom could yet shape our future

Hilda is finding it hard to fit in to this crowded new place

In the new capital of the British Raj

' Guardian 'Outstanding

The Bovadium Fragments by J.R.R. Tolkien Groundswell Speaker 2024 Unsettling and totally unpredictable -World first publication of a previously unknown short satirical fantasy by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, and accompanied by illustrations from the author together with an essay, The Origin of Bovadium, by Richard Ovenden OBE. As Christopher Tolkien notes in his Introduction, The Bovadium Fragments was a satirical fantasy written by his father, which grew out of a planning controversy that erupted in Oxford in the late