Smith of Wootton Major

By: J. R. R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi.

Smith of Wootton Major journeys to the Land of Faery thanks to the magical ingredients of the Great Cake of the Feast of Good Children.

Lose the calliope music

The calliope music is distracting and inappropriate this is not a cute little children’s story. You should edit out the music

Multiple listens...

Reread via Audible on a car ride today. Amazing! And Derek Jacobi could read the back of a soup can and leave me enthralled.
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I want to have kids just so I can read them stories like this. I wanted to eat the Twenty-Fourth Year Cake; I wanted to hear Smith Smithson sing while he smithied; and just when my eyes were bugging out of my head because of the beautiful descriptions of Faerie, I remembered it all started with a Master Baker. The story changed hands at least three times, but it was seamless. Each one of the hands could have been a story of Their Own.

I'd rate this a G. Read this to your chilluns! They need more magic. So do you!

Wonderful story. Highly recommend.

Tolkien creates something wonderful here, a story truly worth reading. It is a story that lodges itself in the soul, long after it has been read.

A Brilliant Short Story

This was a delight to listen to via Audio Book. The story and journey seem simple for such a short story, but there's so much more to it than that. I've no intention to trivialize or diminish this brilliant work, but it was simply wonderful to listen to. This was narrated by the magnificent Derek Jacobi. Two thumbs up! I can't help but express what a joy it was to listen to this, as J.R.R. Tolkien was such a literary genius.

Loved it

Super cute book and read beautifully, narrator did a great job! Not the first time I’ve read and won’t be the last