The Bovadium Fragments: together with The Origin of Bovadium
The Bovadium Fragments: together with The Origin of Bovadium is a book by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited posthumously by Christopher Tolkien. It was published on 9 October 2025.
The book presents for the first time Tolkien's The End of Bovadium, a previously unpublished story that was written between the late 1950s and early 1960 with its accompanying illustrations. Also included is The Origin of Bovadium, an essay by Richard Ovenden. Around 12 October, Richard Ovenden signed copies of the book to be sold by Blackwells. These signed copies were all sold out by 2 November at the latest. On 12 January 2026, a deluxe slipcased edition was announced, which would contain "an exclusive foldout colour frontispiece".
Contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Note to Readers
- Publisher's Note
- Introduction
- THE BOVADIUM FRAGMENTS
- Foreword
- Fragment I
- Fragment II
- Fragment III
- Postscript by the Editor
- Other Texts of Fragment II
- THE ORIGIN OF BOVADIUM
- Acknowledgments
- Works by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Endnotes
- About the Publisher
Illustrations
- London to Oxford through Berkshire
- O to be in Oxford (North) now that Summer's here
- Turl St., Oxford
- Untitled [Alder by a Stream]
- Broad Street, Oxford
- King's Norton from Bilberry Hill
- The Wood at the World's End
From the publisher
Previous overview
Overview
Possible errata & typos
Several sections of the book were written in Latin by Tolkien, and these parts do not seem to have been proofread as carefully as the rest of the text: there are a few spelling mistakes and typos left in the final published book. For instance, “Mortori” instead of “Motori” (p. 14), “periculum morris” instead of “periculum mortis”, or “Cresar” for “Caesar” (p. 50-51) and “redificia” for “aedificia” (p. 51). Moreover, the diphtong æ (ae) is not always (i.e. inconsistently) ligatured (e.g. “diversae [sic] factæ sunt linguæ eorum”, p. 50).
Publication history and gallery
- HarperCollins hardcover (2025), pp. 144. ISBN 9780008737764
- HarperCollins hardcover with slipcase (2026), ISBN 9780008815134
Referencias
1. Esta ficha se ha importado inicialmente de TolkienGateway.net el día 30/05/2026.
