• July 1989

• Edited by Mike Percival

• ISSN 0306-8781

• Reprinted by kind permission of The Tolkien Society - all rights reserved.

Farmer Giles of Ham 40th Anniversary special issue

Contents

• Cover - Happy Birthday, Farmer Giles - Pauline Baynes

• 2 - Editorial - Mike Percival

• 3 - Contents

• 4 - Behind Glass Doors - Debi Haigh-Hutchinson

• 5 - Announcements

• 8 - Over the hill the Giant's face appeared - Ron Ploeg

• 9 - The Publishing History of Farmer Giles - Christina Scull

• 11 - Farmer Giles: Beowulf for the Critics - Steve Linley

• 13 - A Royal Pantechnicon - Ron Ploeg

• 15 - Of Ham, and what became of it - Brin Dunsire

• 17 - A Dog's Eye View - Dylan Pugh

• 18 - A Trick of the Tail - Alex Lewis

• 19 - "Drat You, Dog" - Ron Ploeg

• 21 - An interview with Ted Nasmith

• 25 - Jessica's Corner - Jessica Yates

• 26 - Small Press - Debi Haigh-Hutchinson and Jessica Yates

• 27 - Farmer Giles - Ley Holloway

• 30 - Debi's Dabblings - Debi Haigh-Hutchinson

• 31 - Tolk Folk

• 32 - Cover

Calligraphy

• Kirsty Beck - p. 2

• Susanne Stopfel - p. 2

• Maggie Thomson - p. 5

• Tony Curtis - p. 7

• Howard Bates - p. 15

• Walter Clarke - p. 17

• Brenda Marshall - p. 25, 26

Additional Artwork

• Walter Clarke - p. 3

• Marian Haas - p. 6

• Ley Holloway - p. 10

• Nathalie Kotowski - p. 16

• Ted Nasmith - p. 24, 29. 31