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Smith of Wootton Major
First edition front cover; the illustration extends over the spine to the back cover.
AuthorJ. R. R. Tolkien
IllustratorPauline Baynes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy novella
PublisherGeorge Allen & Unwin
Publication date
9 November 1967[1]
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Preceded byThe Road Goes Ever On 
Followed byBilbo's Last Song (posthumous) 

Smith of Wootton Major, first published in 1967, is a novella by J. R. R. Tolkien. It tells the tale of a Great Cake, baked for the once in twenty-four year Feast of Good Children. The Master Cook, Nokes, hides some trinkets in the cake for the children to find; one is a star he found in an old spice box. A boy, Smith, swallows the star. On his tenth birthday the star appears on his forehead, and he starts to roam the Land of Faery. After twenty-four years the Feast comes around again, and Smith surrenders the star to Alf, the new Master Cook. Alf bakes the star into a new Great Cake for another child to find.

Scholars have differed on whether the story is an allegory or is, less tightly, capable of various allegorical interpretations; and if so, on what those interpretations might be. Suggestions have included autobiographical allusions such as to Tolkien's profession of philology, and religious interpretations such as that Alf is a figure of Christ. The American scholar Verlyn Flieger sees it instead as a story of Faërie in its own right.

  1. ^ Scull, Christina; Hammond, Wayne G. (2006). The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide. Vol. Chronology. HarperCollins. p. 711. ISBN 978-0-618-39113-4.

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