There are lesser Elven kingdoms that humans can visit and return: Faramir mentions visitors to Lorien. Both Faery and Valinor are lands outside of the normal world, but Valinor cannot normally be visited by mortals. It is not definitely connected to the Middle-earth legendarium. The book was originally called " The Great Cake", but the title was changed to " Smith of Wootton Major" in an attempt to suggest an early work by P.G. It also explains how the story grew from this first idea into the published version. The most recent edition includes a previously unpublished essay by Tolkien, explaining the background and just why the elf-king spent so long in Wooton Major. But the story grew from there and became a tale in its own right. This would have been part of a preface to George MacDonald's famous faerie story The Golden Key. The tale grew out of an attempt to explain the meaning of " Faery" by means of a brief story about a cook and his cake. An audiobook of the story was released in 2003, with Derek Jacobi's narration. In 1997, the story was included alongside Tolkien's other classic tales in the Houghton Mifflin publication Tales from the Perilous Realm. Tolkien, first published as a book in 1967. Smith of Wootton Major is a short story by J.R.R.
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