The Adventures of Tom Bombadil was written by British philologist and author J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien is best known for his classic high fantasy works, such as The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil was published in 1962 and is a collection of 16 poems about the character Tom Bombadil, who appears in Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.
J. R. R. Tolkien's collection of poems, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, was initially released in 1962. Out of the sixteen poems in the book, two of them are about Tom Bombadil, a character that Frodo Baggins meets in The Lord of the Rings.