Status Updates From Tales from the Perilous Realm

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil was a great piece of world-building with a collection of poems from the "Red Book" and a preface that attempts to attach authors and origin to each poem.

"In his bad heart of hearts the dragon felt as kindly disposed towards Giles as a dragon can feel towards anyone."
Farmer Giles of Ham was a great read between the grumpy characters, intentionally preposterous "translator", and the insistence that it is all true with explanations for how modern day locations came by their names.

"Indeed Roverandom grew to be very wise, and had an immense local reputation, and had all sorts of other adventures."
It is wild that a story written for his children about a lost toy is still distinctively the same style perfected for older audiences in his later works.

"The next eclipse was a failure, for the dragon was too busy licking his tummy to attend to it. And he never got the black sploshes off where the spell hit him. I am afraid they will last for ever."