The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book was published on 22nd November 1962.

In the first part of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are crossing the Old Forest when they are attacked by the Old Man Willow. They are rescued by Tom Bombadil. Tom also appears in verses said to have been written by Hobbits and preserved in the ‘Red Book’ with stories of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and their friends.

This book collects these and other poems, mainly concerned with legends of The Shire.

This book not only contains the poems but also commentaries on those poems and explanations of how they came to be in the book. There’s also information as to where the poems occur in The Lord of the Rings.