But his self-satisfaction is short lived: a hungry Welsh dragon named Chrysophylax Dives (Latin for “Gold-watcher the Rich”), having heard by way of the aforementioned giant that the Middle Kingdom no longer contains any pesky knights, but only biting insects, decides to investigate the Middle Kingdom. He continued to throw hard words and hard things at the dog when he felt inclined, but he winked at many little outings. The moon dazzled the giant and he did not see the farmer; but Farmer Giles saw him and was scared out of his wits. He used to go out walking in the Wild Hills and in the empty regions at the feet of the mountains, all by himself.

It is cheerfully anachronistic and light-hearted, set in Britain in an imaginary period of the "Dark Ages", and featuring mythical creatures, medieval knights, and primitive firearms. It contains much wordplay – such as about how the Thames got its name – that betrays Tolkien's lifelong interest in philology. The lambs looked really bad, I know they were orphan and these never look the best but these were bad. My thoughts are this has much more depth than Roverandom and a lot of cleverness that I saw behind the craft. Garm could not talk even dog-Latin; but he could use the vulgar tongue (as could most dogs of his day) either to bully or to brag or to wheedle in.Tolkien dedicated Farmer Giles of Ham to Cyril Hackett Wilkinson (1888–1960), a don (lecturer) he knew at Oxford University; Wilkinson had encouraged Tolkien to go ahead with writing the story for the Lovelace Society at Worcester College. The character Giles is a fantastic example, just being a farmer and using non-chivalry ways of overcoming his obstacles.

Tolkien was horrified by the change that motor traffic wreaked on Oxford, and the air pollution; he had given up his happy but dangerous driving, as depicted in his children's story Mr.

In vielerlei Hinsicht sieht er fast schon wie der Schöpfer des Genres aus, ist seine Trilogie doch Vorlage für eine schier endlose Menge an Werken geworden. 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.