This is a collection of three poems, two shorter ones and a long, that Tolkien wrote while working on The Lord of the Rings. They are taken from old legends from the area of Brittany, and feature a fay creature known as a Corrigan who alternately steals babes from their cradle, replacing them with fay newborns, and seduces married men. The poems are a pleasure to read, and it's obvious that some of the ideas here made their way into The Lord of the Rings, albeit in much changed form.

To a linguistic Tolkien scholar, this might be worth the price tag of 24 dollars. There is much to study for those interested in the minutiae of his studies and where some of the stories of his creations came from. For the rest of us, even big time fans of Middle-Earth, it might feel a bit criminal to pay full cover price for what amounts to about 30 minutes of reading. It's a beautiful book, as are most of these releases of Tolkien's unfinished works that have been making their way to the bookshelves. However, as loathe as I am to niggle about price, it should not cost as much as it does.